mandatory

mandatory, adj. Of, relating to, or constituting a command; required; preemptory.

“A provision in a statute is said to be mandatory when disobedience to it, or want of exact compliance with it, will make the act done under the statute absolutely void.” Henry Campbell Black, Handbook on the Construction and Interpretation of the Laws 334 (1896).

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