legal intent

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• legal intent — A presumed intent, for example, the intent to accomplish the natural and probable consequences of one s acts. 29 Am J2d Ev § 204. A term applied without circumspection to the intent of a testator. In strict reasoning, a testator can have but one… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• intent — Adjective: With fixed purpose; earnest; determined; engrossed. Noun: Purpose. The purpose to use a particular means to effect a certain result. Baker v State, 120 Wis 135, 97 NW 566. A constituent element of all criminal acts, but not necessarily …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• intent — in·tent /in tent/ n 1: the act or fact of intending: as a: the design or purpose to commit a wrongful or criminal act – called also criminal intent; compare knowledge, mens rea …   Law dictionary

• Legal formalism — is a legal positivist view in philosophy of law and jurisprudence. While Jeremy Bentham s legal positivism can be seen as appertaining to the legislature, legal formalism appertains to the Judge; that is, formalism does not (as positivists do)… …   Wikipedia

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• Legal instrument — is a legal term of art that is used for any written legal document such as a certificate, a deed, a will, an Act of Parliament or a law passed by a competent legislative body in municipal (domestic) or international law. Many legal instruments… …   Wikipedia

• intent on — index solicitous Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• intent upon — index decisive, insistent, resolute Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• Legal status of Salvia divinorum — ] In such places where Salvia divinorum legislation exists, it varies in its prohibitive degree from country to country. Australia has imposed its strictest Schedule 9 (US Schedule I equivalent) classification for example, and Italy has also… …   Wikipedia

• Legal Tender Cases — The Legal Tender Cases were a series of United States Supreme Court cases in the latter part of the nineteenth century that affirmed the constitutionality of paper money. In the 1870 case of Hepburn v. Griswold , the Court had held that paper… …   Wikipedia

• intent — I adj. (cannot stand alone) intent on, upon (she is intent on getting the job done quickly) II n. 1) criminal intent 2) intent to + inf. (with intent to kill) 3) by intent 4) (misc.) to all intents and purposes ( practically ); (legal) loitering… …   Combinatory dictionary