plural of authorial intent

The intent of an author as encoded in their work.

A legal document outlining one or more agreements between two or more parties before the actual agreements are finalized

plural of letter of intent

(law) A formal statement of what a person or organization intends to do, which is not binding in the way a contract is.

(law) The situation where, when the intention to harm one party inadvertently causes a second party to be harmed instead, the perpetrator is still held responsible.

plural of direct intent

plural of oblique intent

(law) In criminal law, whereby an individual seeks a particular consequence to occur and commits a crime in order to achieve it.

(law) In criminal law, an intent where the event is a natural consequence of a voluntary act and is foreseen as such.