intendment

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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 Binning, Hugh

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

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

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)