Wilful - Law Dictionary Search Results
Notice to quit
No fresh notice, however, is necessary where a tenant, after having given or been given a notice, contumaciously wilfully holds over, and becomes liable for double rent according to the (English) Distress for Rent Act, 1737 (1
Demurrage
of the ship, or the hostile occupation of the intended port; nor is it claimable for any delay wilfully occasioned by the master, or owners, or crew of the vessel. The claim for demurrage ceases as soon
Murder
may be (and very frequently is) convicted of manslaughter. The Infanticide Act, 1922, provides that a woman who wilfully causes the death of her newly-born child shall be guilty of the felony of infanticide if at the
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Manorial documents
under the control of the lord of the manor but he shall not be entitled to destroy or wilfully damage them. The Master of the Rolls has power to direct the documents to be sent to the
Malice in law
in law' means 'something done without lawful excuse'. In other words, 'it is an act done wrongfully and wilfully without reasonable or probable cause, and not noiselessly an act done from ill feeling and spite'. It is
Malice exception
exception, A limitation on a public official's qualified immunity, by which the official can face Civil liability for wilfully exercising discretion in a way that violates a known or well-established right, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p.
Malice
antecedent menaces, former grudges, and concerted schemes to do him some bodily harm; or implied, as where one wilfully poisons another; in such a deliberate act the law presumes malice, though no particular enmity can be proved.
Legal malice
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
Lata culpa dolo 'quiparatur
with a reckless disregard of its truth or untruth has the same effect as a statement which is wilfully untrue.
Ex dolo malo non oritur actio
Ex dolo malo non oritur actio. Cowp. 343.-(From a fraud an action does not arise.) See Collins v. Blantern, (1767) 2 Wils. 341; 1 Sm. L.C., where it has held that a bond given to induce...
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