 | Emer de Vattel - 1797 - 1216 halaman
...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 - 1818 - 892 halaman
...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 - 1834 - 850 halaman
...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 halaman
...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 - 1851 - 860 halaman
...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 - 1848 - 1040 halaman
...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 - 1850 - 512 halaman
...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 - 1852 - 668 halaman
...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 - 1852 - 616 halaman
...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 - 1854 - 930 halaman
...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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It is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation, and when the words have a definite and precise meaning, to go elsewhere in search of conjecture in order to restrict or extend the meaning. 
