Malice In Law - Law Dictionary Search Results

Wilfulness

care; conscious, knowing; done with stubborn purpose, but not with malice, Black's Law Dictionary (Fourth Edn.), p. 1773.

fair comment

comment is an honest expression of opinion and free of malice

Malice exception

Malice exception, A limitation on a public official's qualified immunity, by … a way that violates a known or well-established right, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 969.

in newspaper on proceedings at local authority meeting). Proof of malice or spite will rebut a defence of privileged occasion, but … reflects on the character of another, and is published without lawful justification or excuse, is a libel whatever the intention may

manslaughter

manslaughter : the unlawful killing of a human being without malice compare homicide, murder involuntary manslaughter : manslaughter resulting from the … amounting to a felony, or from the commission of a lawful act involving a risk of injury or death that is

Measure of damage

or exemplary damages can be given, e.g., libel, slander, violence, malice, cruelty, or breach of promise of marriage. The actual loss … of damages to the given. The general rule in English law is that in contract the measure of damage is the

Bias

Bias [adopted from Fr. biais, oblique]. The law will not suppose a possibility of bias in a judge,

Age

capacity of legitimation per subsequens matrimonium. There is no age in law at which a man is presumed to be too old

libel

has to prove that “the statement was made with ‘actual malice’ — that is, with knowledge that it was false or … Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964)"] 2 : to proceed against in law by filing a libel (as against a ship or goods)

Master and servant

though, until the untruth of the character given and express malice have been proved, the communication is presumed to have been … misfeasance of the servant. To this general liability the Common Law, as laid down in Priestly v. Fowler, (1837) 3 M&W

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