INTENDMENT

intendment (in-tend-m[schwa]nt). 1. The sense in which the law understands something (the intendment of a contract is that the contract is legally enforceable). — Also termed intendment of law. 2. A decision-maker’s inference about the true meaning or intention of a legal instrument (there is no need for intendment, the court reasoned, when the text […]