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Legal Malice

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Legal malice, means something done without lawful excuse. In other words it is an act done wrongfully and wilfully without reasonable or probable cause and not necessarily an act done from ill feeling and spite, Punjab State Electricity Board v. Zora Singh, AIR 2006 SC 182.

Legal malice, or malice in law means 'something done without lawful excuse (Words and Phrases Legally defined, 3rd Edn., London Butterworth's, 1989)

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