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  2. Shall and will - Wikipedia

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    Thus shall is used with the meaning of obligation, and will with the meaning of desire or intention. An illustration of the supposed contrast between shall and will (when the prescriptive rule is adhered to) appeared in the 19th century, [11] and has been repeated in the 20th century [12] and in the 21st: [13] I shall drown; no one will save me!

  3. English modal auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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    The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality, properties such as possibility and obligation. [a] They can most easily be distinguished from other verbs by their defectiveness (they do not have participles or plain forms [b]) and by their lack of the ending ‑(e)s for the third-person singular.

  4. Philippine legal codes - Wikipedia

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    Eventually, the Philippine legal system emerged in such a way that while the practice of codification remained popular, the courts were not barred from invoking principles developed under the common law, [1] or from employing methods of statutory construction in order to arrive at an interpretation of the codal provisions that would be binding ...

  5. Statutory interpretation - Wikipedia

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    New York Law School Law Review, Vol. 51, Fall 2006. Jon May, "Statutory Construction: Not For The Timid" Archived June 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, The Champion Magazine (NACDL), January/February 2006. Corrigan & Thomas, "Dice Loading" Rules Of Statutory Interpretation, 59 NYU Annual Survey Of American Law 231, 238 (2003).

  6. Talk:Shall and will - Wikipedia

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    Clearly this is an exceptional case where shall is better. --Sluggoster 09:31, 5 November 2007 (UTC) As for shall vs should, my (northwestern US) ears prefer shall but the difference is very slight. Shall focuses on your magnimony, and you may already be half-standing when you say it.

  7. Choice of law clause - Wikipedia

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    In contract law, a choice of law clause or proper law clause [1] is a term of a contract in which the parties specify that any dispute arising under the contract shall be determined in accordance with the law of a particular jurisdiction. [2] It determines the controlling law: the state which will be relied upon in settling disputes. An example ...

  8. Civil law (common law) - Wikipedia

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    Civil law is a major "branch of the law", in common law legal systems such as those in England and Wales and in the United States, where it stands in contrast to criminal law. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Private law , which relates to civil wrongs and quasi-contracts , is part of civil law, [ 3 ] as is law of property , excluding property-related crimes , such ...

  9. Rule of lenity - Wikipedia

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    The Florida statute states that the code "shall be strictly construed; when the language is susceptible of differing constructions, it shall be construed most favorably to the accused." [ 22 ] [ 12 ] The Ohio law states simply that offenses and penalties shall be "strictly construed against the state and liberally construed in favor of the ...