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INTENDANT

INTER OffiJTEROS

ing to the cabinet ministers or secretaries of the various departments of the United States government, as, "intendant of ma rine," "intendant of finance." The term was also used in Alabama to des ignate the chief executive officer of a city or town, having practically the same duties and functions as a mayor. See Const. AJa. 1901, $ 176; Intendant and Council of Greensboro v. Mullins, 13 Ala. 341. INTENDED TO BE RECORDED. This phrase is frequently used in conveyances, when reciting some other conveyance which has not yet been recorded, but which forms a link in the chain of title. In Pennsylvania, it has been construed to be a covenant, on the part of the grantor, to procure the deed to be recorded in a reasonable time. Penn v. Preston, 2 Rawle (Pa.) 14. INTENDENTE. In Spanish law. The immediate agent of the minister of finance, or the chief and principal director of the dif ferent branches of the revenue, appointed in the various departments in each of the prov inces into which the Spanish monarchy is di vided. Escricha INTENDMENT OF LAW. The true meaning, the correct understanding or inten tion 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 under standing; the plain meaning of any writing as apparent on its face without straining or distorting the construction. 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 actually accompanies an outward, corporal act which has been de termined on. Intent shows the presence of will in the act which consummates a crime. It is the exercise of intelligent will, the mind be ing fully aware of the nature and consequences of the act which is about to be done, and with such knowledge, and with full liberty of action, willing and electing to do it. Burrill, Circ Bv. 284, and notes. — General intent. An intention, purpose, or design, either without specific plan or particu lar object, or without reference to such plan or object. 2. Meaning; purpose; signification; in tendment; applied to words or language. See CERTAINTY. — Common intent. The natural sense given to words. INTENTIO. Lat In the civil law. The formal complaint or claim of a plaintiff before the praetor. In old English, law. A count or declara tion in a real action, (narratio.) Bract, lib. 4, tr. 2, c. 2; Fleta, lib. 4, c 7; Du Cange.

Intentio caeca mala. A blind or obscure meaning is bad or ineffectual. 2 Bulst 179, Said of a testator's intention. Intentio inservire debet legibus, son leges intention!. The intention |pf a par ty] ought to be subservient to [or in accord ance with] the laws, not the laws to the in tention. Co. Litt. 314a, 3146. Intentio mea imponit nomen operi meo. Hob. 123. My intent gives a name to my act. Meaning; will; purpose; design. "The intention of the testator, to be collected from the whole will, is to gov ern, provided it be not unlawful or inconsist ent with the rules of law." 4 Kent, Comm. 534. "Intention," when used with reference to the construction of wills and other documents, means the sense and meaning of it, as gathered from the words used therein. Parol evidence is not ordinarily admissible to explain this. When used with reference to civil and criminal responsibility, a person who contemplates any result, as not unlikely to follow from a de liberate act of his own, may be said to intend that result, whether he desire it or not. Thus, if a man should, for a wager, discharge a gun among a multitude of people, and any should, be killed, he would be deemed guilty of in tending the death of such person; for every man is presumed to intend the natural conse quence of his own actions. Intention is often confounded with motive, as when we speak^ of a man's "good intentions." Mozley & Whitley. 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 cansas acquisition!*, mag na, Celebris, et famosa est causa dona tionis. Among other methods of acquiring property, a great, much-used, and celebrated method is that of gift Bract, fol. 11. 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 JUEIS. INTER BRACHIA. Between her arms. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 35, §§ 1, 2. INTER CiETEROS. Among others; in a general clause; not by name, (normnatim.) INTENTION.