 | Emer de Vattel - International law - 1856 - 668 pages
...admit the meaning terpret what which such deed naturally presents. To go elsewhere in hns. no neetl search of conjectures, in order to restrict or extend it, is but ^ti°n*mi j an attempt to elude it. If this dangerous method be once admitted, there will be no deed... | |
 | Georg Friedrich Martens - Europe - 1857 - 852 pages
...interpret what has no need of interpreUlioo. When a deed is worded in clear and precise terms ; ihea its meaning is evident and leads to no absurd conclusion...restrict or extend it, is but an attempt to elude it. If this dangerous method be once admitted, there will be DO deed which it will not render useless."... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - Constitutional history - 1857 - 774 pages
...aclniit the meaning which such deed naturally presents. To go elsewhere in search of conjunctures, in order to restrict or extend it, is but an attempt to elude it. Those cavillers who dispute the sense of a clear and determinate article, are accustomed to seek their... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1868 - 892 pages
...maxim of interpretation is that tí it not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation. When a deed is worded in clear and precise terms ;...restrict or extend it is but an attempt to elude it. If this dangerous method," he says, " be once admitted, there will be no deed which it will not render... | |
 | Joel Tiffany, New York (State). Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 802 pages
...the sense is manifest, and letfds to nothing absurd — there can be no reason to refuse the sense it naturally presents. To go elsewhere in search of conjectures, in order to restrain or extinguish it, is to endeavor to elude it. If this dangerous method be once admitted there... | |
 | William Fitzwilliam Milton (Viscount) - British Columbia - 1869 - 474 pages
...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 ;...restrict or extend it, is but an attempt to elude it. If this dangerous method,' he says, ' be once admitted, there will be no deed which it will not render... | |
 | Law - 1884 - 550 pages
...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,...conjectures, in order to restrict or extend it, is but to elnde it." Vattel's Law of Nations, 244. Here the words are plain and interpret themselves. The... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1888 - 1228 pages
...meaning is evident and leads to no absurd conclusion, there can be no reason for refusing to admit tho meaning which such deed naturally presents. To go...of conjectures in order to restrict or extend it is bat an attempt to elude it. " Those cavilers who dispute the sense of a clear and determined article... | |
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When a deed is worded in clear and precise terms — when its meaning is evident and 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 conjectures,... 
