 ... employed, and if the words are free from ambiguity and doubt, and express plainly, clearly and distinctly, the sense of the framers of the instrument, there is no occasion to resort to other means of interpretation. It is not allowable to interpret...  The New York Supplement - Page 271915Full view - About this book
 | Emer de Vattel - 1797 - 1216 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1851 - 860 pages
...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 - 1040 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1852 - 616 pages
...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,... | |
 | Emer de Vattel, Edward Duncan Ingraham - 1852 - 670 pages
...Treaties. 262 Necessity of establishing rules of interpretation . . . 244 263 First general maxim — it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation . . . . . . ib. 264 Second general maxim — if he who could and ought to have explained himself, has... | |
 | Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - 1894 - 712 pages
...language, are alike out of place. " If the words are free from ambiguity and doubt, and express plainly and clearly and distinctly the sense of the framers of...occasion to resort to other means of interpretation. It Lee Bros. Furniture Co. c. Cram. is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation."... | |
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