 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1825 - 800 pages
...if I strike A, though not knowing him — if I maim cattle, without knowing whose they are(18) — if I poison a fishery, without knowing the owner, I do it with malice, because I do it, not against the owner, but because it is a wrongful act done intentionally,... | |
 | Law - 1844 - 506 pages
...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...because it is a wrongful act and done intentionally." The court were of opinion that only in cases of privileged communication, was the question of malice,... | |
 | Great Britain. Bail Court - Civil procedure - 1845 - 1144 pages
...J., in delivering judgment, goes fully into the meaning of the word " malice," and there says, " If I give a perfect stranger a blow, likely to produce...because I do it intentionally, and without just cause of excuse. If I maim cattle, without (a) 6 TR 1 1. (c) 4 B. & C. 247; See SC (b) Vol. 2, p. 673, 4,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas - Law reports, digests, etc - 1847 - 612 pages
...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,...is a wrongful act, and done intentionally. If I am attainted of felony, and wilfully stand mute, I am said to do it of malice, because it is intentional,... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1848 - 764 pages
...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,...if I poison a fishery, without knowing the owner, 1 do it of malice, because it is a wrongful act, and done intentionally. * * If I traduce a man, whether... | |
 | John Frederick Archbold - Criminal law - 1853 - 1006 pages
...means, a wrongful act, done intentionally, without just cause or excuse. If I give a perfect stranger л blow likely to produce death, I do it of malice, because...cattle, without knowing whose they are, if I poison a fisher}', without knowing the owner, I do it of malice, because it is a •wrongful act and done intentionally.... | |
 | Edmund Powell - Evidence - 1856 - 456 pages
...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,...it intentionally and without just cause or excuse. . . . And if I traduce a man, whether I know him or not, and whether I intend to do him an injury or... | |
 | Edmund Hatch Bennett, Franklin Fiske Heard - Criminal law - 1857 - 642 pages
...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,...owner, I do it of malice, because it is a wrongful act a»d done intentionally. If I am arraigned of felony, and wilfully stand mute, I am said to do it of... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - Evidence (Law) - 1858 - 898 pages
...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,...knowing the owner, I do it of malice, because it is a wrougfid act, and done intentionally. * * If I traduce a man, whether I know him or not, and whether... | |
 | Edmund Powell - Evidence (Law) - 1859 - 540 pages
...its legal sense it means a wrongful act done intentionally, without just cause or excuse. If I gire a perfect stranger a blow likely to produce death,...it intentionally and without just cause or excuse. . . . And if I traduce a man, whether I know him or not, and whether I intend to do him an injury or... | |
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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. If I give a perfect stranger a blow likely to produce death, I do it of malice, because I... 
