| Emer de Vattel - International law - 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 - Foreign exchange rates - 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... | |
| Joseph Chitty - Contracts - 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 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 - Constitutional law - 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 - Indians of North America - 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... | |
| Emer de Vattel, Edward Duncan Ingraham - International law - 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... | |
| Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 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... | |
| 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... | |
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