 | Emer de Vattel - 1797 - 1216 σελίδες
...Interpretation of Treaties. 262. -Nccefiity of efbblifhing rules of interpretation, 244 Firft general maxim — it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation, ibid. 264. Second general maxim — if he who could and ought to have explained himfclf, has not done... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1818 - 892 σελίδες
...celebrated writer on the law of nations J, that it is the first general maxim of interpretation, "that it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation ;" and that when a deed is worded in clear and precise terms, when its meaning is evident, and leads to no... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1834 - 850 σελίδες
...separately responsible (e). OF i AUDI. EVIDENCE IN CONTRADICTION, &C., TO A WRITTEN AGREEMENT. — It is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation. Qitoties in rerbis nulla est amblffuitns, ibi nulla exposilio contra verba Jienda est ( /'). The principle... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 548 σελίδες
...falling under that rule of Vattel, which he calls "the first general maxim of interpretation — That it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation." "In order (says Mr. Calhoun) to prevent so important a provision from being eluded, the provision immediately... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1851 - 860 σελίδες
...exposition shall be made xvhich is opposed to the express words of the instrument, or in other words, it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation. (Smith on Ht. 6f Const. Con. p. 651, sec. 505.) No such necessity was shown otherwise than by the presentation... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 σελίδες
...Mackeldey, sec. 180, pp. 172, 3. (c) Domat, prel. b. tit. 1, p. 17. which the words naturally present; to go elsewhere in search of conjecture in order to restrict or extend the act, would be but an attempt to elude it. Such a method, if once admitted, would be exceedingly dangerous,... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 σελίδες
...no absurdity on the face of it. Such a procedure is a violation of that incontestable maxim — that it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation. (a) Much less are we allowed, — when the author of a piece has in the piece itself declared his reasons... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs - 1850 - 512 σελίδες
...fraud and to prevent the effect of its artifices. The first general maxim of interpretation is, that it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation. When a deed is worded in clear and precise terms — when its meaning is evident, and leads to no absurd... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1852 - 740 σελίδες
...conclusions, there can be no reason for refusing to admit the meaning which the words naturally present : to go elsewhere in search of conjecture in order to restrict or extend the act, would be but an attempt to elude it. Such a measure, if once admitted, would be exceedingly dangerous,... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1852 - 616 σελίδες
...this opportunity of observing, that, according to the rule which stands at the head of these remarks, it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation, and that the law will not make an exposition against the express words and intent of the parties.4 Hence,... | |
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the first general maxim of interpretation is, that it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation. 
