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intendment

[in-tend-muhnt] / ɪnˈtɛnd mənt /












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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 Edmund G. (Edmund Gibson) Ross

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

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

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

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




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