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Definition of Intendment
1. n. Charge; oversight.
Definition of Intendment
1. Noun. (legal) the sense in which the legal system interprets something, especially the intention of legislation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Intendment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intendment
Literary usage of Intendment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"... the land under water within the meanders being unsurveyed and unplatted, convey
by legal intendment more than the grant purported to embrace? ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"Either by express averment, or by necessary intendment in the pleadings of the
... It must appear, either in direct terms or by necessary intendment, ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Taxation: Including the Law of Local Assessments by Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1876)
"... the mistake may be overlooked, and the court, when the record becomes the
subject of judicial investigation, may by intendment supply what is omitted, ..."
4. The Works of John Owen by John Owen (1826)
"The intendment of the words insisted on, from 1 Sam. xii. 22. Isa. xxvii. 2—4.
Zeph. iii. ... The intendment of those words, ' I will not forsake thee. ..."
5. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1898)
"Enlargement of Jurisdiction by intendment. — Courts established by the written
... Their power cannot be enlarged by intendment so as to embrace objects not ..."
6. A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations which Rest Upon the Legislative by Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1903)
"... not to be enlarged by intendment, especially where they are being exercised
by a corporation by way of appropriation of land for its corporate purposes. ..."
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