 Those directions which are not of the essence of the thing to be done, but which are given with a view merely to the proper, orderly and prompt conduct of the business, and by a failure to obey which the rights of those interested will not be prejudiced,...  The Southwestern Reporter - Page 1861901Full view - About this book
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 840 pages
...his valuable work on Constitutional Limitations ( 6th Ed., p. 92), says : ' Those directions which are not of the essence of the thing to be done, but which are given with a view merely to the proper, orderly, and prompt conduct of the business, and... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1868 - 776 pages
...determining whether the provisions of a statute are mandatory or directory. ' Those directions which are not of the essence of the thing to be done, but which arc given with a view merely 1 State v. Lean, 9 Wis. 292. to the proper, orderly, and prompt... | |
 | Thomas Harvey Coldwell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 790 pages
...distinction between directory and mandatory provisions in statutes, states, that: "Those directions which are not of the essence of the thing to be done, but which are given with a view merely to the proper, orderly and prompt conduct of the business, and by... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1874 - 904 pages
...determining whether the provisions of a statute are mandatory or directory. Those directions which are not of the essence of the thing to be done, but which are given with a view merely * to the proper, orderly, and prompt conduct of the busi- [* 78]... | |
 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 518 pages
...STATUTE, WHEN DIRECTORY. — A statute prescribed merely as a matter of form, containing directions which are not of the essence of the thing to be done, but which are given solely with a view to the orderly and prompt conduct of the business is merely directory.... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 964 pages
...will not vitiato the proceedings, so as to render the subscription invalid. 4. Those directions which are not of the essence of the thing to be done, but which are given with a view merely to the proper, orderly, and prompt conduct of the business, and... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 962 pages
...between statutes which are mandatory and those which are directory only, that "those directions which are not of the essence of the thing to be done, but which are given with a view merely to the proper, orderly and prompt conduct of the business, and by... | |
 | Law - 1883 - 572 pages
...before the commencement of his action for the penalty would bar such action. Those directions which are not of the essence of the thing to be done, but which are given with a view merely to the proper or duly and prompt conduct of the business, and by... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 1338 pages
...the failure to meet, the rights of the parties interested were not prejudiced. Those directions which are not of the essence of the thing to be done, but which are given mainly with a view to the orderly and prompt conduct of the business, and by a failure... | |
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