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  • INTENDMENT OF LAW
    The true meaning, the correct understanding or Intention of the law; a presumption or Inference made by the courts. Co. Litt 78. -Common intendment. The natural and usual sense: the common meaning or understanding; tne plain meaning of any writing as apparent on its face without straining or distorting the More...
  • INTENT
    1. In criminal law and the law of evidence. Purpose; formulated design; a resolve to do or forbear a particular act; aim; determination. In its literal sense, the stretching of the mind or will towards a particular object "Intent" expresses mental action at its most advanced point, or as it More...
  • INTENTIO
    Lat. In the civil law. The formal complaint or claim of a plaintiff before the praptor. In old English law. A count or declaration in a real action, (narratio.) Bract, lib. 4, tr. 2, c 2; Fleta, lib. 4, c 7; Du Cange. Intentio essea mala. A blind or obscure More...
  • INTENTION
    Meaning; will; purpose; design. "The intention of the testator, to be collected from the whole will. Is to govern, provided it be not unlawful or inconsistent with the rules of law." 4 Kent, Comm. 634. "Intention," when used with reference to the construction of wills and other documents, means the More...
  • INTENTIONE
    A writ that lay against him who entered into lands after the death of a tenant in dower, or for life, etc, and held out to him in reversion or remainder. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 203.
  • INTER
    Lat. Among; between.
  • INTER ALIA
    Among other things. A term anciently used in pleading, especially in reciting statutes, where the whole statute was not set forth at length. Inter alia enactatum fuit, among other things it was enacted. See Plowd. 65. Inter alias cans as acquisitionls, magna, Celebris, et famosa est eansa dona-tionis. Among other More...
  • INTER ALIOS
    Between other persons; between those who are strangers to a matter in question.
  • INTER APICES JURIS
    Among the subtleties of. the law. See APEX JURIS.
  • INTER BRACHIA
    Between her arms. Fleta, lib. 1, c, 35, 8 1, 2.
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