intendment
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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
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
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
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
But I cannot find that, either in fact or in legal intendment, he was appointed during the present Presidential term.
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
