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Threats

Threats, or menaces of bodily hurt, through fear of which a man's business is interrupted, are civil injuries affecting the...

Misfeasance in public office

Misfeasance in public office, has been defined as malicious abuse of power, deliberate maladministration and unlawful acts causing injury

Steam engines

1831; and as to damaging or obstructing them, see (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 29, 35, 36. See also ss.

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Wrongful gain

of misappropriating the thing in all circumstances which show a malicious intent to derive the master of it, Krishna Kumar v.

Wreck

them lawfully (ibid., s. 66). The offence of unlawfully and maliciously destroying any part of a wreck, or any goods, etc.,

Waste

impeachment of waste, will be restrained from committing wilful, destructive, malicious, or extravagant waste, such as pulling down houses, cutting timber

Trial

where fraud is alleged, or in cases of libel, slander, malicious prosecution, false imprisonment, seduction, or breach of promise of marriage,

Cat

a cat, see (English) Larceny Act, 1861, s. 21; for maliciously killing or wounding, see (English) Malicious Damage Act, 1861, s.

Telegraphs

or the obstruction of message is a misdemeanour by the Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 37, 38 and as to offences

Slander of title

Slander of title, means a false and malicious written or spoken public statement disparaging a person's title to

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