Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
common intendment
The natural or common meaning in legal interpretation. 3. A person's expectations when interacting with others within the legal sphere.
intendment
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 of the statute is clear>. - Formerly also spelled entendment.