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)

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

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

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)

Hath he discover'd my intendment, That he presages his ensuing death?

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew