 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 666 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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 828 pages
...smay 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... | |
 | Law - 1884 - 542 pages
...only be avoided by a change of the law itself, to be effected by legislative and not judicial action. It is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation ; this rule is cardinal and universal:" Sedgwick on Construction of Statute, 194. By the provision... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1434 pages
...departments 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... | |
 | Jan Helenus Ferguson - International law - 1884 - 754 pages
...down several maxims for the interpretation of treaties, which may be briefly stated as follows. 1st. 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 - 1899 - 1206 pages
...been accepted as a primary and superior principle of Interpretation, since the time of Vattel, that "it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation." 2 Inst 533. Such language best declares, without more, the intention of the lawgiver, and is decisive... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1154 pages
...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...allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation. The statute itself furnishes the best means of its own exposition." To the same effect Is End. Interp.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1182 pages
...to have intended what it has plainly expressed ; and there is consequently no room for construction. It is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation. Davis v. Randall, 97 Me. 36, 53 Atl. 835. It has accordingly been distinctly stated, from early times... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1148 pages
..."theaters" the parties must be presumed to have Intended what they have plainly expressed and that, since It Is not allowable to "interpret" what has no need of Interpretation, there is no reason for a construction of language which they claim is capable of only one meaning.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1348 pages
...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 Interpret what has no need of Interpretation." State ex rel. v. Manson, 105 Tenn. 237, 238, 58 8. W. 319, 320. From what has been said, It follows... | |
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... 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 interpret what has no... 
