Intimation

n.	1.
	1.	The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.
	2.	Announcement; declaration. They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished. - Holland.
	3.	A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design. Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him. - Bp. Burnet.

Noun	1.	intimation - an indirect suggestion; "not a breath of scandal ever touched her" Synonyms: hint, breath
	2.	intimation - a slight suggestion or vague understanding; "he had no inkling what was about to happen" Synonyms: glimmering, inkling, glimmer

INTIMATION, civil law. The name of any judicial act by which a notice of a legal proceeding. is given to some one; but it is more usually understood to mean the notice or summons which an appellant causes to be given to the opposite party, that the sentence will be reviewed by the superior judge.
     2. In the Scotch law, it is an instrument, of writing, made under the hand of a notary, and notified to a party, to inform him of a right which a third person had acquired; for example, when a creditor assigns a claim against his debtor, the assignee or cedent must give an intimation of this to the debtor, who, till then, is justified in making payment to the original creditor. Kames' Eq. B. 1, p. 1, s. 1.

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