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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Hath he discover'd my intendment, That he presages his ensuing death?
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt
Yet manifested he is, as the intendment of the work he was about required,—manifested to reproach and ignominy for our sin.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
Other differences cropped up as to the phraseology of the Wilson Resolution and its legal intendment.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White
Was it not Christ's great intendment and purpose, to purify to himself a holy people?
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
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
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