 | New Mexico. Supreme Court, John Abbott, Paul A. F. Walter - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 746 pages
...no need of interpretation" and continues: "When a deed is worded in clear and precise terms,—when its meaning is evident, and leads to no absurd conclusion,...in search of conjectures, in order to restrict or enlarge it, is but to elude it." Vatt. Law Nat. 244; Ruggles v. Illinois, 108 US 534. The language... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - Arbitration (International law) - 1898 - 1186 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,...search of conjectures in order to restrict or extend is but an attempt to elude it. If this dangerous method be once admitted, there will be no deed which... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - Arbitration (International law) - 1898 - 1178 pages
...meaning is evident and leads to no absurd conclusion, there can be no reason for refusing to admit tlie meaning which such deed naturally presents. To go...search of conjectures in order to restrict or extend is but an attempt to elude it. If this dangerous method be once admitted, there will be no deed which... | |
 | Carl Gustave Jahn - Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 832 pages
...interpretation. When a deed is worded in clear and precise terms; when its meaning is evident, and tends to no absurd conclusion, there can be no reason for...order to restrict or extend it, is but an attempt to evade it." It is urged, however, that at this time, in 1886, there were no churches in Ashtabula that... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - United States - 1901 - 710 pages
...is manifest and leads to nothing absurd, there can be no reason to refuse the sense which the treaty 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... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1032 pages
...interpretation ia that "it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation" and continues : "When a deed is worded in clear and precise terms,...in search of conjectures, in order to restrict or enlarge it, is but to elude it." Vattcl, Law of Nations. 244 ; ПигщШ v. 11linms, 108 US 534, 27... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1918 - 954 pages
...Vattel says: It is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation. When its (of a deed) 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 no deed which it will not render useless.... | |
 | International law - 1918 - 962 pages
...Vattel says: It is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation. When its (of a deed) 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 no deed which it will not render useless.... | |
 | Henry Campbell Black - Law - 1911 - 776 pages
...is manifest aivd leads to nothing absurd, there can be no reason not 'lcr adopt -the sense which it naturally presents. To go elsewhere in search of conjectures, in order to find a different meaning, is not so much to interpret the statute as to elude it.4 "When the words... | |
 | United States - 1912 - 1036 pages
...interpretation Is tliat, it is not allowable to interpret ichat has no need of interpretation. When the deed is worded in clear and precise terms, when its...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... | |
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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,... 
