 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1883 - 796 pages
...any railroad companies," and clearly expressed such restriction. In such cases, besides the rule that it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation, the maxim expressio unius est exclusio alterius, applies. That is to say, all further limitation than... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 676 pages
...departments may have been or how long continued, for it can only be resorted to in aid of interpretation, and "it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation." If there were ambiguity or doubt, then such a practice, begun so early and continued so long, would... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1156 pages
...intention of the lawmaker must be determined from "the words and language employed ; and if the words are free from ambiguity and doubt, and express plainly,...occasion to resort to other means of interpretation. It la not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation." Again, it is said in section 367:... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 666 pages
...resorted to in aid of interpretation. But Vattel's first general maxim of interpretation 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 — when its meaning is evident and... | |
 | Law - 1884 - 542 pages
...only be avoided by a change of the law itself, to be effected by legislative and not judicial action. It is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation ; this rule is cardinal and universal:" Sedgwick on Construction of Statute, 194. By the provision... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 828 pages
...smay have been or how long continued, for it can only be resorted to in aid of interpretation, and "it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation." If there were ambiguity or doubt, then such a practice, begun so early and continued so long, would... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1434 pages
...departments may have been or how long continued, for it can only be resorted to in aid of interpretation, and "it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation." If there were ambiguity or doubt, then such a practice, begun so early and continued so long, would... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 1206 pages
...been accepted as a primary and superior principle of Interpretation, since the time of Vattel, that "it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation." 2 Inst 533. Such language best declares, without more, the intention of the lawgiver, and is decisive... | |
 | Jan Helenus Ferguson - International law - 1884 - 754 pages
...down several maxims for the interpretation of treaties, which may be briefly stated as follows. 1st. It is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation, for when a treaty is conceived in clear and precise terms, and the sense is manifest, and leads to... | |
 | Texas. Court of Appeals - Criminal law - 1886 - 840 pages
...For this purpose the language employed in the act is first to be resorted to. If the words employed are free from ambiguity and doubt, and express plainly, clearly, and distinctly, the intent, according to the most natural import of the language, there is no occasion to look elsewhere.... | |
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... language employed, and if the words are free from ambiguity and doubt, and express plainly, clearly and distinctly, the sense of the framers of the instrument, there is no occasion to resort to other means of interpretation. It is not allowable to... 
