 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1843 - 694 pages
...to do a ministerial act; and the summons shows that the defenders have committed a wrong which ban worked damage to the pursuers. I must likewise observe,...that every one must be taken to intend the necessary conseqncnce of his deliberate acts. Then we are told that tbe action cannot be maintained, because... | |
 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1852 - 616 pages
...Arch. Cr. PL, 8th ed. 11. 5 Dyer, 104, b. 6 Argument, Mitchell v. Jenkins, 5 B. & Ad. 590; ECLR 27. "Malice, in the legal acceptation of the word, is...conscious violation of the law to the prejudice of another ;" per Lord Campbell, 9 Cl. & Fin. 321. See also, per Pollock, CB, Slim-win v. Swindall, 12 M. & W.... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1861 - 582 pages
...(Holt., 215); Burrows v. Wright (1 East, 617); Roscoc NP, 2 ed., 773. Malice, in the legal acceptance of the word, is not confined to personal spite against...violation of the law to the prejudice of another, Ferguson v. Earl of Kinnoule (9 CF, 321), and therefore the words " maliciously made away with," do... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1861 - 586 pages
...Burrows v. Wright (1 East, 617); Roscoe NP, 2 ed., 773. Malice, in the legal acceptance of the word, ia not confined to personal spite against individuals,...violation of the law to the prejudice of another, Ferguson v. Earl of Kinnoule (9 CF, 321), and therefore the words " maliciously made away with," do... | |
 | R.C. Lepage - 1866 - 518 pages
...fatally bent upon mischief." " Malice/' said Lord Campbell, " in the legal acceptation of the " term is not confined to personal spite against individuals,...violation of the law to the prejudice of " another." Lord Tenterden said, " I take it to be a general rule " that an act unlawful in itself and injurious... | |
 | Punjab (India) - Civil law - 1869 - 838 pages
...Lords, "in the legal acceptation of the term, is not confined to personal spite against individuals, bat consists in a conscious violation of the law to the prejudice of another." " I take it to be a general rule," said Lord Tenterden in Duncan v. Thwaitrjs, " that an act unlawful... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Dictionaries, Law - 1870 - 674 pages
...Cfiitt. Gen. Pr. 46. Otherwise called malice in law. Pollock, CB 12 Mees. & W. 787. 2 Greenl. Ev. § 453. Malice, in the legal acceptation of the word, is not...violation of the law, to the prejudice of another. Lord Campbell, 9 Cl. & Fin. 321. Malice, in its legal sense, means 'a wrongful act done intentionally,... | |
 | John Shortt - Contracts - 1871 - 824 pages
...malicathe legal import of the word malice must be borne in mind. " Malice," says Lord Campbell, (h) " in the legal acceptation of the word, is not confined...violation of the law to the prejudice of another." "Malice," says Bayley, J.,(i) " in common acceptation, means ill-will against a person ; but in its... | |
 | Appleton Morgan - Contempt of court - 1875 - 538 pages
...legal acceptation of the word, is not confined to personal spite 1 Le Farm v. Malcomson, 1 HL Cas. 664. against individuals, but consists in a conscious violation of the law to the prejudice of another." " Malice," says another learned Judge,1 " in common acceptation, means ill-will against a person ;... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - Law - 1875 - 858 pages
...a wrongful act intentionally, without just cause or excuse" (e), or more generally, as "consisting in a conscious violation of the law to the prejudice of another" (/). Malice * accompanying a direct injury may aggravate and "• ' J intensify it; ex, gr., may raise... | |
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Malice, in the legal acceptation of the word, is not confined to personal spite against individuals, but consists in a conscious violation of the law to the prejudice of another. 
