intendment

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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 Ross, Edmund G. (Edmund Gibson)

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

For their lives, neither could have translated its deep intendment.

From The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee by Duer, Douglas

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 Ross, Edmund G. (Edmund Gibson)

The one sort of these also are for the most part taken strictly according to the letter, the other more largely and beneficially after their intendment and meaning.

From Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by Harrison, William