 | Joseph Chitty - 1826 - 710 Seiten
...admit the meaning which such a deed naturally presents; to go e'eewhere in search of conjecture», in order to restrict or extend it, is but an attempt...useless. It seems that on similar principles, our counts, notwithstanding; their anxiety to give effect to the intentions of the contracting parties,... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Committee on Public Lands - 1838 - 102 Seiten
...manifest, and leads to nothing absurd, there can be no reason to refuse the sense which this 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... | |
 | Albert Gallatin - 1840 - 476 Seiten
...manifest, and leads to nothing absurd, there can be no reason to refuse the sense which this 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... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs - 1850 - 512 Seiten
...refusing to admit the meaning which such deed naturally presents. To go elsewhere in search of conjecture, in order to 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.... | |
 | Emer de Vattel - 1852 - 666 Seiten
...refusing to admit the meaning torpret what which such deed naturally presents. To go elsewhere inh8 search of conjectures, in order to 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.... | |
 | Emer de Vattel, Edward Duncan Ingraham - 1852 - 670 Seiten
...admit the meaning terprot what which such deed naturally presents. To go elsewhere in h°s. no nocd search of conjectures, in order to 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.... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1856 - 502 Seiten
...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 be once admitted, there will be no deed which it will not render useless."... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1856 - 108 Seiten
...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 be once admitted, there will be no deed which it will not render useless."... | |
 | Great Britain - 1856 - 72 Seiten
...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 conjectures, in order to restrict or extend it, is hut an attempt to elude it. If this dangerous method be once admitted, there will be no deed which... | |
 | United States. Department of State - 1856 - 498 Seiten
...refusing to admit the meaning which such deed naturally presents. To go elsewhere in search of wnjectures in order to 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."... | |
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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,... 
