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Legal malice

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Wilful

intentionally and designedly; a conscious failure to observe care; conscious; knowing; done with stubborn purpose, but not with malice. The word 'reckless' as applied to negligence, is the legal equivalent of 'wilful' or 'wanton'. In the book … (2003) 11 SCC 1 (15). Wilful act must be intentional, deliberate, calculated and conscious, with full knowledge or legal consequence following therefrom, State of Orissa v. MD. Illias, (2006) 1 SCC 275: AIR 2006 SC 258. The

manslaughter

human being without malice compare homicide, murder involuntary manslaughter : manslaughter resulting from the failure to perform a legal duty expressly required to safeguard human life, from the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to a

malicious prosecution

malicious prosecution : the tort of initiating a criminal prosecution or civil suit against another party with malice and without

aggravating circumstance

the degree of liability or culpability [punitive damages are recoverable in a conversion case when the evidence shows legal malice, willfulness, insult, or other aggravating circumstances "Schwertfeger v. Moorehouse, 569 So. 2d 322 (1990)"] ;also : a circumstance

plead

pled also: plead [pled] plead·ing [Anglo-French plaider to argue in a court of law, from Old French plaid legal action, trial more at plea ] vi 1 : to make an allegation in an action or other … by way of a pleading : state in a pleading [unless plaintiff s and proves facts showing actual malice, he cannot recover punitive damages "Kumaran v. Brotman, 617 N.E.2d 191 (1993)"] [ a case of fraudulent conveyance]

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