intendment
Americannoun
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Law. the true or correct meaning of something.
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intention; design; purpose.
noun
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the meaning of something as fixed or understood by the law
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obsolete intention, design, or purpose
Etymology
Origin of intendment
1350–1400; intend + -ment; replacing Middle English entendement < Middle French < Medieval Latin intendimentum
Example Sentences
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In the technical language of English law the fee-simple of the glebe is said to be in abeyance, that is, it exists “only in the remembrance, expectation and intendment of the law.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
I think not, for the following reasons: The statute does not by any words of legal intendment say so.
From Minnesota and Dacotah by Andrews, C. C. (Christopher Columbus)
A corporation aggregate of many is invisible, immortal, and rests only in intendment and consideration of the law.
From Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various
I: and said nothing but what I protest intendment of doing Iago.
From Othello by Shakespeare, William
Other differences cropped up as to the phraseology of the Wilson Resolution and its legal intendment.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace
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