| Alexander James Dallas - 1799 - 552 páginas
...article appears to me to come, within the firft general maxim of interpretation laid down by Pattel. ,a It is not permitted to interpret what has no need of ** interpretation. When an ait is conceived in clear and pre** cife terms, when the fenfe is manifeft, and leads to nothing u... | |
| Robert Joseph Pothier - 1806 - 728 páginas
...The article appears to come within the fJTÍl general maxim of interpretation laid down by fatte/ : " It is not permitted to interpret what has no need of interpretation. When an aft is conceived in clear. and prccife terms, when the fenfe is manifefl, and leads to nothing abfurd,... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - 1838 - 620 páginas
...then have been wholly ignorant of our municipal laws. It is a cardinal maxim of interpretation, that it is not permitted to interpret what has no need of interpretation. When an act is conceived in clear and precise terms, where the sense is manifest, and leads to nothing absurd, there... | |
| Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Committee on Public Lands - 1838 - 102 páginas
...is this treaty to be interpreted ? Vattel says, " The first general maxim of interpretation is, that it is not permitted to interpret what has no need of interpretation. When an act is conceived in clear and precise terms, when the sense is manifest, and leads to nothing absurd, there... | |
| Albert Gallatin - 1840 - 200 páginas
...appeal to supposed intentions is inadmissible. " The first general maxim of interpretation is, that it is not permitted to interpret what has no need of interpretation. When an act is conceived in clear and precise terms, when the sense is manifest, and leads to nothing absurd, there... | |
| Albert Gallatin - 1840 - 476 páginas
...intentions is inadmissible. " The first general maxim of interpretation is, that it is not permit, ted to interpret what has no need of interpretation. When an act is conceived in clear and precise terms, when the sense is manifest, and leads to nothing absurd, there... | |
| E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 páginas
...interpret what is plain and manifest, as it stands in no heed of interpretation. When an act is conceived in clear and precise terms — when the sense is manifest,...and leads to nothing absurd, there can be no reason to refuse the sense which it naturally presents to the mind. To go elsewhere in search of conjecture,... | |
| Balthazard-Marie Emerigon - 1850 - 828 páginas
...- 1 interpretation ot treaties. He informs us that the first general rule of construction is, that it is not permitted to interpret what has no need of interpretation. When an instrument is conceived in clear and precise terms, when its sense is manifest, and leads to nothing... | |
| William Wetmore Story - 1856 - 848 páginas
...Hylton, 8 Dall. R. 199 ; 2 Evans's Pothier on Oblig. 38, 39. See, also, Vattel, B. 2, Ch. 17, § 263. " It is not permitted to interpret what has no need of interpretation." 1 Co. Litt. 147, a. * See Wigram on Interp. of Wills, p. 42; Proposition IL, ante, § 639, note. "... | |
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