Brunell v. United States
77 F. Supp. 68 - Dist. Court, SD New York, 1948 -
... “Beginning with Vattel, in the middle of the Eighteenth Century,in the De Lima case, supra, the Supreme Court adopted and approved the principles enunciated by Vattel in the Eighteenth Century.”
Ruggles v. Illinois
108 US 526, 2 S. Ct. 832, 27 L. Ed. 812 - Supreme Court, 1883
... But Vattel’s first general maxim of interpretation is that “it is not allowable to interpret what has
no need of interpretation,”