What is settled intention and what is the definition of settled intention?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Kemba Kafi Robinson v. Dalton Lexton Birch, 2010 ONSC 2172 (CanLII):

In the leading case of Spring v. Spring (1987), 61 O.R. (3d) 743, the concept of “settled intention” denotes quality and not duration. What is required is a state of mind, however brief, that has been consciously formed and firmly established.

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