intendment

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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)

The law must govern in its natural and plain intendment, and will not be frittered away by extraneous interpretation.

From History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, by the House of Representatives, and his trial by the Senate for high crimes and misdemeanors in office, 1868 by Ross, Edmund G. (Edmund Gibson)

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 Binning, Hugh

Our terrestrial organisations are but far-off approaches to so fair a model; and all they are verily traitors who resist not any attempt to divert them from this their original intendment.

From Outspoken Essays by Inge, William Ralph

But Jacob denied that he came to their house with any such intendment, nor did it appear so to the Court.

From Diary in America, Series One by Marryat, Frederick