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Shall

decisive factor in deciding whether a provision is mandatory or directory, Graphite India Ltd. v. Durgapur Projects Ltd., (1999) 7 SCC

Trust

perfect, complete, or constituted. (b) Trusts executory, imperfect, incomplete, or directory. (II.) Arising by operation of law, such as (a) Constructive,

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This clause shall not apply

on the proposed penalty. The phrase is mandatory and not directory, Union of India v. Tulsiram Patel, AIR 1985 SC 1416:

Ordinarily

due to absence of such. Its meaning would be a directory, Tarak Nath Mistri v. University of Calcutta, AIR 2007 (NOC)

Must or shall

couched in prohibitive or negative language, it can rarely be directory, the use of peremptory language in a negative form is

Mandatory

Mandatory, perceptive; directory.

Law List

with specialized practices, stenographers, and the like. (2) A legal directory such as Martindale-Hubbell. Many states and large cities also have

Executory trusts

and in the case of those wills which are merely directory of a subsequent conveyance, the trusts declared by them are

As nearly as possible

but approximate and is meant not to be mandatory but directory. The said proviso does not, in terms, say that in

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