malice in fact
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
- (law) Provable intent to commit a crime or otherwise do harm.
- 1845 January, Peter Vivian Daniel, “White v. Nicholls et al.”, in Benjamin C. Howard, editor, United States Reports[1], volume 44, Philadelphia: T & J. W. Johnson, page 281:
- But falsehood and want of probable cause are in themselves evidence of malice in fact.
- 1888 June 6, William Vernon Harcourt, parliamentary debates (House of Commons):
- A private individual very often made a statement out of malice, but a newspaper very often published these matters not for malice in fact, but because it answered their purpose to do so […]