 | 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
...a 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... | |
 | Theodore Lyman - United States - 1826 - 412 pages
...demolishing the fortifications. No maxim in public law is of higher and more general authority, than that " it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation." The American government subsequently consented that the fortifications should be demolished. The Spaniards,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 548 pages
...case falling under that rule of Vattel, which he calls "the first general maxim of interpretation — That it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation." "In order (says Mr. Calhoun) to prevent so important a provision from being eluded, the provision immediately... | |
 | 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
...it is a dangerous abuse to go without necessity in search of motives and uncertain views, in order to wrest, restrict, or extend the meaning of a deed...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... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...other kind of laws. § 478. The first general maxim of interpretation laid down by this writer is, that it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation.(d) When the words of an act are in clear and precise terms, — when its meaning is... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs - Indians of North America - 1850 - 512 pages
...repress 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 - International law - 1852 - 666 pages
...is a dangerous abuse, to go, without necessity, in search of motives and uncertain views, in order to wrest, restrict, or extend the meaning of a deed...allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation (§ 263). Much less are we allowed, — when the author of a piece has in the piece itself declared... | |
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Vattel's first general maxim of interpretation is that " it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation... 
