| Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1876 - 996 Seiten
...what seems to me to be the most accurate definition of the term, when used as a legal term. He said: "Malice, in common acceptation, means ill-will against...done intentionally, without just cause or excuse." And he proceeds to illustrate the matter thus : " If I give a perfect stranger a blow likely to cause... | |
| Simon Greenleaf - 1876 - 762 Seiten
...malice in fact, was clearly expounded by Mv. Justice Bayley, in the following terms : " Bailee, in the common acceptation, means ill-will against a person,...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... | |
| Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1876 - 762 Seiten
...of the publication of the defamatory matter. " Malice in common acceptation," observes Bayley, J., " means ill-will against a person, but in its legal...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,... | |
| Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard - 1877 - 916 Seiten
...said by an English judge, "Malice iu common acceptation means ill-will against a person, but in iU 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... | |
| United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit) - 1877 - 684 Seiten
...one occasion, it was said by an English judge, that malice meant wilfulness. In legal signification it means "a wrongful act, done intentionally, without just cause or excuse." Such is the meaning of the word in the section 5347 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, making... | |
| Charles L. Bonney - 1878 - 74 Seiten
...than one hundred dollars. (Miss. Code, sec. 2,912.) 178. Malice, in common acceptation, means ill will against a person, but in its legal sense it means a wrongful act done intentionally and without just cause or excuse. If one gives a perfect stranger a blow likely to produce death it... | |
| William J. Henry, William Logan Harris - 1879 - 534 Seiten
...description of malice in contradistinction to the popular sense in which the term is commonly used : " Malice, in common acceptation, means ill-will against...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...against individuals, but consists in a conscious violation of the law to the prejudice of another.'" " Malice, in common acceptation, means ill-will against...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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