Ay, and said nothing but what I protest intendment of doing.

Who, it is to be asked, is within the legislative grasp, or intendment, of the statute under consideration?

Such alienation would, it seems, be inconsistent with the intendment of the Act of Settlement.

It has no faculties but such as the Constitution has given it, either expressly or incidentally by necessary intendment.

INTENDMENT, intention.

The Supreme Court found in 1918 that provincial legislation cannot bind the federal Crown except "by express terms or necessary intendment", nor can the Queen in her federal council or parliament legislate for the provinces beyond the provisions of the constitution.