| Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold, Arnold LeBell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 770 pages
...least, elementary. As stated by Mr. Justice MARSHALL in Gilbert v. Dutruit, supra, quoting Vattel: " It is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation. When the meaning is evident, and leads to no absurd conclusions, there can be no reason for refusing... | |
| United States - Bering Sea controversy - 1897 - 518 pages
...upon, to the prejudice, possibly, of one of the parties, is rejected. The first maxim of Vattel is: 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... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 1110 pages
...am not disposed to question the first rule laid down by Vat tel, and so universally approved, that "it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation"; but his fifteenth and sixteenth rules of construction have been equally approved, which are as follows:... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 926 pages
...the modes and times ider v. Worthington, 5 Md. 485: Sutherland. .Slat. Constr. £ 2И6. If tue words are free from ambiguity and doubt, and express plainly, clearly, and distinctly the s-ens^e of the framcrs of the instru ment, there is no occasion to resort to other means of interpretation. Sutherland,... | |
| John Bassett Moore - Arbitration (International law) - 1898 - 1178 pages
...universally recognized as law,1 (emphasis ours) : "'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... | |
| William John Tossell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 748 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 a lawmaking body, there is no occasion to resort to other means of interpretation. The question is... | |
| Law - 1883 - 538 pages
...resorted to in aid of interpretation. But Vattel'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 and leads... | |
| Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) - 1930 - 618 pages
...law. In speaking of the interpretation of treaties Vattel says (Law of Nations, Book II, sec. 263) : It is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation. PARTW Part W of article 4, 1853, says : The vessels and citizens of the United States shall in all... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs - 1932 - 116 pages
...doing they must first seek that intent from the language employed in the statute, and if the words are free from ambiguity and doubt, and express plainly, clearly, and distinctly the sense of the legislators, resort may not be had to other means of interpretation. As is stated in Sutherland on... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs - 1932 - 242 pages
...doing they must first seek that intent from the language employed in the statute, and if the words are free from ambiguity and doubt, and express plainly, clearly, and distinctly the sense of the legislators, resort may not be luid to other means of interpretation. As is stated in Sutherland on... | |
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