 | Hawaii. Office of the Attorney General - 1846 - 710 sivua
...absurdity to suppose, that the very terms of a deed should reduce it to mean nothing." " It ought te be interpreted in such a manner as that it may have its effect, and not prove vain and nugatory." "The question is to give the words that sense which ought to be presumed most conformable to the intention... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 770 sivua
...the preceding; for it is a kind of absurdity to suppose that the very terms of a deed should reduce it to mean nothing. It ought to be interpreted in...and nugatory. And in this interpretation we proceed. Thucydides relates that the Athenians, after having promised to retire from the territories of the... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1857 - 774 sivua
...is a kind of absurdity to suppose that the very terms of a deed should reduce it to mean nothing. I( ought to be interpreted in such a manner as that it...and nugatory. And in this interpretation we proceed. Thucydides relates that the Athenians, after having promised to retire from the territories of the... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1916 - 720 sivua
...and void cannot be admitted. It is an absurdity to suppose that after it is reduced to terms it means nothing. It ought to be interpreted in such a manner as that it may have effect and not be found vague and nugatory. When the first clause of a section conforms to the obvious... | |
 | Emer de Vattel - 1863 - 670 sivua
...kind CBAP- "}!• cf absurdity to suppose that the very terms of a deed should ™ld of et~ reduce it to mean nothing. It ought to be interpreted in...the question is, to give the words that sense which on£ht to be presumed most containable to the intention of the parties speaking. If many different... | |
 | Emer de Vattel - 1867 - 672 sivua
...terms of a deed should *""d of *freduce it to mean nothing. It ought to be interpreted in such ect a manner as that it may have its effect, and not prove vain «nd nugatory : and in this interpretation we proceed accord- t ing to the mode pointed out in the... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick - 1874 - 750 sivua
...the preceding; for it is a kind of absurdity to suppose that the very terms of a deed should reduce it to mean nothing. It ought to be interpreted in...and nugatory. And in this interpretation we proceed. Thucydides relates that the Athenians, after having promised to retire from the territories of the... | |
 | 1890 - 1130 sivua
...null and Inefficient, cannot be admitted ; " and again, "it ought to be interpreted in such amanneras that it may have its effect, and not prove vain and nugatory." Vatt. Law Nat. bk. 2, c. 17. As we read the article, it declares that, in all the states of the Union... | |
 | 1912 - 1164 sivua
...and void cannot be admitted; it is an absurdity to suppose that after it is reduced to terms it means nothing. It ought to be interpreted in such a manner as that it may have effect and not to be found vain and illusive." Potter's Dwarris on Statutes, 128. In the case of Curtis... | |
 | Sir Fortunatus Dwarris - 1885 - 698 sivua
...void, cannot be admitted ; it is an absurdity to suppose that after it is reduced to terms, it means nothing. It ought to be interpreted in such a manner, as that it may have effect, and not to be found vain and illusive." 17. " If he who has expressed himself in an obscure... | |
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which would render a treaty null and inefficient cannot be admitted;" and again, "it ought to be interpreted in such a manner as that it may have its effect, and not prove vain and nugatory. 
