ministerial duty

ministerial duty
An official duty wherein the officer has no room for the exercise of discretion, official or otherwise, the performance being required by direct and positive command of the law. 34 Am J1st Mand § 70. A duty of an officer in respect to which nothing is left to his discretion; a duty absolute, certain, and imperative, involving merely execution of a specific act arising from fixed and designated facts. State ex ref. Sewer Dist. v Ellis, 163 Neb 86, 77 NW2d 809.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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