 | Great Britain. Courts - 1873 - 562 pàgines
...the law puts upon those expressions, none of these authorities state. Malice in common acceptation means ill-will against a person ; but in its legal...intentionally, without "just cause or excuse. If I r*^Qo give a perfect stranger a blow likely to produce death, I do it "of malice, because I do it intentionally,... | |
 | L. B. Horrigan, Seymour Dwight Thompson - 1874 - 1134 pàgines
...255, said: " Malice, in common acceptation, means ill-will against a person ; but, in its legal sense, means a wrongful act, done intentionally, without...excuse. If I give a perfect stranger a blow likely to prodace death, I do it of malice, because I do it intentionally, and without just cause or excuse.... | |
 | Appleton Morgan - 1875 - 538 pàgines
...law to the prejudice of another." " Malice," says another learned Judge,1 " in common acceptation, means ill-will against a person ; but in its legal...because I do it intentionally, and without just cause 01 excuse. If I maim cattle without knowing whose they are ; if I poison a fishery without knowing... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - 1876 - 996 pàgines
...accurate definition of the term, when used as a legal term. He said: "Malice, in common acceptation, means ill-will against a person, but in its legal...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... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit) - 1877 - 684 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Ceylon. Supreme Court - 1881 - 402 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1883 - 632 pàgines
...standard legal authority : — ' Malice,' says the Court in 4 Barn. & Cress. 255, 'in common acceptation, means ill-will against a person ; but in its legal...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 pàgines
...that now we have malice in fact and malice in law. Justice BAYLEY says : "Malice in common acceptation means ill-will against a person, but in its legal...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 wrongful... | |
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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. 
