| Joseph Chitty - 1818 - 892 էջ
...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,...leads to no absurd conclusion, there can be no reason for refusing to admit the meaning which such deed naturally presents; to go elsewhere in search of... | |
| E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 էջ
...is not allowable to interpret Nwhat has no need of interpretation.(d) When the words of an act are in clear and precise terms, — when its meaning is evident, and leads to no absurd conclusions, there can be no reason for refusing to admit the meaning (a) Ft, 12, D. ibid.— Fr. 80,... | |
| Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1852 - 740 էջ
...2, ch. 17, § 263, " to interpret what has no need of interpretation. When the words of an act are in clear and precise terms — when its meaning is evident, and leads to no absurd conclusions, there can be no reason for refusing to admit the meaning which the words naturally present... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1856 - 848 էջ
...over what is obscure, of determining what is uncertain, and of frustrating the views of him who arts with duplicity in forming the compact. Let us begin...to no absurd conclusion — there can be no reason for refusing toadmit the meaning which such deed naturally presents. To go elsewhere in search of conjecture,... | |
| United States. Department of State - 1856 - 502 էջ
...natural order of things. Vattel informs us, in his chapter on " The Interpretation of Treaties," that " the first general maxim of interpretation is, that...leads to no absurd conclusion, there can be no reason for refusing to admit the meaning which such deed naturally presents. To go elsewhere in search of... | |
| United States. Department of State - 1856 - 108 էջ
...natural order of things. Vattel informs us, in his chapter on " The Interpretation of Treaties." that "the first general maxim of interpretation is, that...leads to no absurd conclusion, there can be no reason for refusing to admit the meaning which such deed naturally presents. To go elsewhere in search of... | |
| Great Britain - 1856 - 72 էջ
...Vattel informs us in his chapter on " The Interpretation of Treaties" that "the first general maxim ot interpretation is, that it is not allowable to interpret...leads to no absurd conclusion, there can be no reason for refusing to admit the meaning which such dsed naturally presents. To go elsewhere in search of... | |
| United States. Department of State - 1856 - 498 էջ
...that " the first general maxim of interpretation is, that it is not allowable to interpret what IMS no need of interpretation. When a deed is worded in...leads to no absurd conclusion, there can be no reason for refusing to admit the meaning which such deed naturally presents. To go elsewhere in search of... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 էջ
...those maxims of justice and equity which are caleulated to repress fraud, and to prevent the effects of its artifices. The first general maxim of interpretation...leads to no absurd conclusion, there can be no reason for refusing to admit the meaning which such deed naturally presents. To go elsewhere in search of... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 774 էջ
...the effects of its artifices. The first general maxim of interpretation if, that it is not allcvablc to interpret what has no need of interpretation. When...leads to no absurd conclusion, there can be no reason for refusing to aclniit the meaning which such deed naturally presents. To go elsewhere in search of... | |
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