 | Robert Phillimore - International law - 1854 - 930 pages
...maxim of interpretation equally by civilians, and by writers on International Law. Vattel says that it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation. If the meaning be evident, and the conclusion not absurd, you have no right to look beyond or beneath... | |
 | Sir Robert Phillimore - Conflict of laws - 1855 - 544 pages
...maxim of interpretation equally by civilians, and by writers on International Law. Vattel says that it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation. If the meaning be evident, and the conclusion not absurd, you have no right to look beyond or beneath... | |
 | United States. Department of State - Central America - 1856 - 108 pages
...chapter on " The Interpretation of Treaties." that "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... | |
 | Great Britain - British - 1856 - 72 pages
...chapter on " The Interpretation of Treaties" that "the first general maxim ot 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... | |
 | United States. Department of State - Belize - 1856 - 502 pages
...chapter on " The Interpretation of Treaties," that " 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1856 - 848 pages
...not to admit of doubt. Certainty of meaning precludes interpretation ; or, in the language of Vattel, "it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation." I conclude, therefore, that the Men»monees have ceded "all their lands in Wisconsin, wherever situated,''... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 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. Much less are we allowed — when the author of a piece has in the piece itself declared his reasons... | |
 | Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1859 - 300 pages
...power to legislate was claimed for Congress, was neither uncertain or doubtful ; and that the maxim, " It is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation" ought to apply ; that the clause was a naked compact, the same as the two preceding clauses, which,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 714 pages
...ascertained from the words employed, and where there is no ambiguity there is no room for construction. "It is not allowable to interpret what has no need...the words have a definite and precise meaning, to go elsewhere in search of conjecture in order to restrict or extend the meaning. Statutes and contracts... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 708 pages
...unambiguous meaning of the terms used. Where there is no ambiguity there is no room for construction. "It is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation, and, when words have a definite and precise meaning, to go elsexvhere in search of conjecture in order to restrict... | |
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... language 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... 
