Tunica County v. Hampton Co. National Surety, LLC

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “This Court has long recognized that the sheriff is the ‘chief law executive officer of his county.’”
• “In statutory interpretation, the term ‘may’ indicates a permissive term, not a mandatory term, such as the term ‘shall’ would indicate.” (citing Weiner v. Meredith, 943 So. 2d 692, 694 (Miss. 2006))
• “It is a general rule that in construing statutes this Court will not only interpret the words used, but will consider the purpose and policy which the legislature had in view of enacting the law. The court will then give effect to the intent of the legislature.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).