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Imperative

containing positive command authoritatively or absolutely directive commanding authoritative as imperative orders

in modern statutes the word shall is used as an imperative only and not as a future, Thring: Practical Legislation, p.

a trust declared by a person by inference and not imperatively, and construed by the Court in favour of the intention.

1 Bl. Com. 54 and 86. (II) As opposed to imperative. When a statute directs that an act should be done

him, or to do certain specified acts. Powers are never imperative; they leave the act to be done at the Will

precatory trust if they are capable of being construed as imperative, but the cases are num-erous and conflicting. In former times

used as a legislative device to make a statutory provision imperative. The words 'shall not register' are mandatory in character. The

out of which the charge has arisen, it was the imperative duty of the accused person to have adopted, S.N. Hussain

generally or to any individual in particular. It is the imperative duty of the driver of a vehicle to adopt such

If the legislative intent is expressed clearly and strongly in imperative words, such as the use of 'must' instead of 'shall',