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Old Wed Jan 18, 2006, 07:21pm
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shall | modal verb

2 expressing a strong assertion or intention : they shall succeed | you shall not frighten me out of this.
3 expressing an instruction or command : you shall not steal

(Definitions 1 and 4 are not relevant for this discussion.)

In the rulebook, I've always taken "shall" to be in the definition 3 sense---a command to the official to do something.
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