intendment
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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
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)
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
For their lives, neither could have translated its deep intendment.
From The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee by Duer, Douglas
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