 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - Law reports, digests, etc - 1826 - 682 pages
...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 man a blow which is likely to produce death, though he is a perfect stranger to me, the... | |
 | Thomas Starkie - Libel and slander - 1830 - 688 pages
...expressions, none of these authorities state. Malice, in common acceptation, means ill-will to a person ; but in its legal sense, it means a wrongful act done intentionally, without just cause or excuse. If I maim cattle without knowing whose they are, if I poison a fishery without knowing the owner, I... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore, Joseph Payne - Law reports, digests, etc - 1831 - 808 pages
...reference to that distinction (6), " 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. And I apprehend the law recognizes the distinction between these two descriptions of malice, viz. malice... | |
 | Patrick Brady Leigh - Nisi prius - 1838 - 928 pages
...precise. But to impute to any" * " 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 Bay1ey, J., in Bromage v. Prosser, 4 B. & C. 255. " MTiere the law implies such malice as is necessary... | |
 | Patrick Brady Leigh - Nisi prius - 1838 - 774 pages
...sheep-stealer,e pickpocket;f or 1 "Malice, in common acceptation, means ill-will against a person, but, in its legal sense, it means a wrongful act done intentionally without just canse or excuse." Per Bayley, J., in Bromage v. Prosser, 4 B. & C. 255. (10 Eng. CL 321.) "Where the... | |
 | Archibald John Stephens - Arbitration and award - 1842 - 998 pages
...malice in fact, and malice in law. 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... | |
 | Law - 1844 - 506 pages
...consideration of the jury." He said, "that malice in common acceptation, means ill will to a person; but .in its legal sense, it means a wrongful act done intentionally without just cause or excuse. If I maim cattle without knowing whose they are — if I poison a fishery without knowing the owner... | |
 | Alexander Slidell Mackenzie - Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - 1844 - 368 pages
...truly stated the distinction : " Malice in its 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" (/). This doctrine was struggled against with persevering opposition in the case of General Picton.... | |
 | Peter Oxenbridge Thacher - Criminal law - 1845 - 756 pages
...of the publisher. Although malice, in its common acceptation, means ill-will against a person, yet 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... | |
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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. 
