 | Nevada. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 1090 pages
...law. (26 Cal. 183; Gill. & John. 383; Sedg. Stat. Law, 592.) TD Edwards and WS Wood, for Kespondent: It is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation. (Vattell, b. 2, Ch. 17, sec. 263.) The statute declares that the lien shall be. exempt, and therefore... | |
 | John Barbee Minor - Common law - 1877 - 1150 pages
...interpretation, namely, Quotles in verbis nulla est ambiyuitas, ibi nulla expositio contra verba fienda est, — it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation, nor will the law make an exposition against the express words and intent of the parties. (Broom's Max.... | |
 | John Townshend - Libel and slander - 1877 - 838 pages
...7 Adol. & El. NS 67 ; Joralemon v. Pomeroy. 2 New Jer. 271 ; Watson v. Nicholas, 6 Humph. 174. But "it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation." (McCluskey v. Cromwell, II NY 601 ; and ante, note p. 171.) 4 Clegg v. Laffer, 3 Moo. & Sc. 727 ; 10... | |
 | Henry Wager Halleck - War - 1878 - 588 pages
...down several maxims for the interpretation of treaties, which may be briefly stated as follows : ist. It is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation, for when a treaty is conceived in clear and precise terms, and the sense is manifest, and leads to... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 716 pages
...remaining. For it is the first general maxim of interpretation laid down in the best autherities, that it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation. When the words of an Act are in clear and precise terms; when its meaning is evident, and leads to... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 1904 pages
...framers and parties is to be sought, first of all, in the words and language employed, and if the words are free from ambiguity and doubt, and express plainly,...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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 1916 pages
...violate the fundamental maxim of construction. "The first maxim of interpretation," says Vattel, "is that it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation;" and he proceeds to point out the fatal and mischievous consequences of violating this rule in the interpretation... | |
 | United States. Comptroller of the Treasury - Finance, Public - 1895 - 404 pages
...may have been or how long continued, for it can only be resorted to in aid of interpretation, and ' it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation.' If, there were ambiguity or doubt, then such a practice, begun so early and continued so long, would... | |
 | New Hampshire. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 728 pages
...intent of the lawmaking power, and seek for that intent in every legitimate way. . . . If the words are free from ambiguity and doubt, and express plainly,...occasion to resort to other means of interpretation. . . . Even when a court is convinced that the legislature really meant and intended something not expressed... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 1004 pages
...be resorted to in aid of interpretation. But Yattel's first general maxim of interpretation is that "it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation," and he •continues: "When a deed is worded in clear and precise terms, — when its meaning is evident... | |
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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... 
