| Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 890 σελίδες
...627; Hawk. PC c. 73, § 14. ||(<z) Malice in common acceptation means ill-will against a person, but in its legal sense it means a wrongful act done intentionally without just cause or excuse. Per Bayley, J., in Bromage v. Prosser, 4 Barn. & C. 255. And " the man who publishes slanderous matter... | |
| Bengal (India). Sadr Dīwānī ʻAdālat - 1853 - 1234 σελίδες
...us that the objection is applicable. Malice in its common sense means ill-will against a person, but in its legal sense it means 'a wrongful act done intentionally without just cause or excuse.' We admit the special appeal, to try whether, with reference to the precedent above quoted, the commissioner's... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - 1847 - 612 σελίδες
...& R. 296, BAYLEY, J., says: "Malice, in common acceptation, means ill-will against a person ; but, in its legal sense, it means a wrongful act, done intentionally, without just cause or excuse." "In an ordinary action for words, it is sufficient to charge that the defendant spoke them falsely;... | |
| Alabama. Supreme Court - 1895 - 846 σελίδες
...[Houlden v. The State.] 10. Matir.e; definition in it* legal xenxe — Malice, in its legal sense, means a wrongful act, done intentionally, without just cause or excuse ; and a charge to the jury that instructs them "that malice, in its common acceptation means ill will against... | |
| John Pitt Taylor - 1848 - 764 σελίδες
...the following terms : — " Malice, in the common acceptation, means ill-will against a person ; but in its legal sense it means a wrongful act, done intentionally, without just cause or excuse. If I give a perfect stranger a blow likely to produce death, I do it of malice, because I do it intentionally,... | |
| John Frederick Archbold - 1853 - 1006 σελίδες
...the term is commonly used : " Malice, in common acceptation, means ill will against a person ; but in its legal sense it means, a wrongful act, done intentionally, without just cause or excuse. If I give a perfect stranger л blow likely to produce death, I do it of malice, because I do it intentionally... | |
| 1856 - 944 σελίδες
...none of these authorities state. Malice in common acceptation means ill will against a person, but in its legal sense it means a wrongful act, done intentionally, without just cause or excuse. If I give a perfect stranger a blow likely to produce death, I do it of malice, because I do it intentionally,... | |
| Edmund Powell - 1856 - 374 σελίδες
...Prosser,i Bayley, J., said, — "Malice in common acceptation means ill-will against a person ; but in its legal sense it means a wrongful act done intentionally, without just cause or excuse. If I give a perfect stranger a blow likely to produce death, I do it of malice, because I do it intentionally... | |
| Edmund Hatch Bennett, Franklin Fiske Heard - 1857 - 642 σελίδες
...the term is commonly used : " Malice, in common acceptation, means ill will against a person ; but in its legal sense it means, a wrongful act, done intentionally, without just cause or excuse. If I give a perfect stranger a blow likely to produce death, I do it of malice, because I do it intentionally... | |
| Edmund Powell - 1859 - 540 σελίδες
...Prosser,5 Bayley, J., said : — " Malice in common acceptation means ill-will against a person; but in its legal sense it means a wrongful act done intentionally, without just cause or excuse. If I gire a perfect stranger a blow likely to produce death, I do it of malice, because I do it intentionally... | |
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