 | William John Tossell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 780 pages
...intent of the law makers is to be sought first of all in the language employed, and if the words be free from ambiguity and doubt, and express plainly, clearly and distinctly the sense of the law making body, there is no occasion to resort to other means of interpretation. The question is net... | |
 | United States. Comptroller of the Treasury - Finance, Public - 1895 - 384 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... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Hun - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 752 pages
...and parties is to be sought, first of all. in the words and the 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... | |
 | William John Tossell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 724 pages
...construed in their natural, plain and ordinary signification. And Cincinnati v. Light Co, if the words are free from ambiguity and doubt, and express plainly,...occasion to resort to other means of interpretation. Slingluff v. Weaver, 66 Ohio St. 621, 627 [64 NE Rep. 574]. The word "through" includes both "along"... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 788 pages
...occasion to search elsewhere for their meaning. As it was said in McCluskey v. Cromwell (11 NY 593), ' It is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation ; and when the words have a precise and definite meaning to go elsewhere in search of conjecture, in order to restrict or extend... | |
 | William John Tossell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 706 pages
...legitimate way. But, first of all, this should be sought in the words and language used ; and if the words are free from ambiguity and doubt, and express plainly, clearly and distinctly the sense of the framera of the statute, there is no occasion to resort to other means of interpretation. In other words,... | |
 | William John Tossell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 776 pages
...intent of the lawmakers is to be sought first of all in the language employed, and if the words be free from ambiguity and doubt, and express plainly, clearly and distinctly, the sense of the lawmaking body, there is no occasion to resort to other means of interpretation. The question is not... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 1220 pages
...its title, or by reference to any other statute. In the language of McCluskey v. Cromwell, 11 NY 593, "it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation." "When the language of a statute is apt, and the construction plain, the construction cannot be affected... | |
 | New Mexico. Supreme Court, John Abbott, Paul A. F. Walter - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 746 pages
...Dialogue, 2 Pet. 1; McDonald v. Hovey, 100 US 619. Vattel's first general maxim of interpretation is that " it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation" and continues: "When a deed is worded in clear and precise terms,—when its meaning is evident, and leads... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 822 pages
...I am not disposed to question the first rule laid down by Vattel and so universally approved, that "It is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation," but his 15th and 16th rules of construction have been equally approved, which are as follows: "15.... | |
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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... 
