 | William J. Henry, William Logan Harris - 1879 - 534 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... | |
 | Ceylon. Supreme Court - 1881 - 402 σελίδες
...C. 255, where ie said "malice, in common acceptation, means ill will against a person ; but in the legal sense it means, a wrongful act done intentionally without just cause or excuse." This is well illustrated by the case Crozer^. Pilling, p. 26, (same volume of reports). There the defendant... | |
 | California - 1881 - 820 σελίδες
...tending to prove active or legal malice at the time of the homicide. Ptoplf v. Taylor, 36 Cal. 255. It means a wrongful act, done intentionally, without just cause or excuse. Mnywird v. F. f. I/IK. Co., 34 Id. 48; BUC sec. 7, snbil. 4. The rule is well settled, that where au... | |
 | Charles Sweet - 1882 - 946 σελίδες
...the prejudice of another.'" " 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,... | |
 | 1883 - 632 σελίδες
...says the Court in 4 Barn. & Cress. 255, '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.' Bishop on Crimes, in vol. i. sec. 429, thus defines it: ' Malice in legal phrase is never understood... | |
 | Thomas D. Worrall - 1884 - 218 σελίδες
...malice in law. Justice BAYLEY 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. If I traduce a man, whether I know him or not, the law considers it as done of malice, because it is... | |
 | Francis Taylor Piggott - 1885 - 448 σελίδες
...said Bayley, J., in Bromage v. Prosscr, " 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 Definitions... | |
 | Edmund Powell, John Cutler, Edmund Fuller Griffin - 1885 - 772 σελίδες
...Prosser (;•), 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. I apprehend the law recognizes this distinction between these two kinds of malice,—malice in fact,... | |
 | 1913 - 1174 σελίδες
...App. Cas. (1898) p. 25. The term "malice," in ordinary usage means ill will against a person, but in a legal sense it means a wrongful act done intentionally, without just cause or excuse. London Guarantee Co. v. Horn, supra; Allen v. Flood, supra, App. Cas. (1898) p. 18. This latter definition... | |
 | 1886 - 866 σελίδες
...which 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,... | |
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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. 
