Topic: the word 'shall' is generally regarded as mandatory. · Go Syfert
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4 canonical passages across 4 cases, quoted by 14 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Markowitz v. Saxon Special Servicing.

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1 Markowitz v. Saxon Special Servicing Anchor
nev · 2013
green “the word 'shall' is generally regarded as mandatory.” 6
2 Residential Capital, LLC v. CAL-WESTERNRE CONVEYANCE CORP.
calctapp · 2003
green “only a properly conducted foreclosure sale, free of substantial defects in procedure, creates rights in the high bidder at the sale.” 3
3 Arsali v. Chase Home Finance LLC
fla · 2013
green “trial courts' judgments pertaining to set asides of judicial foreclosure sales are now, as they always have been, subject to review by way of an abuse of discretion standard.” 3
4 In re Rugroden
canb · 2012
green “when a statute clearly gives an official no choice but to act, then the act is ministerial.” 2

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