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malice Ill will, intent to commit an unlawful act or cause harm. A man is said to act maliciously when he intended to do the very unlawful act with which he is charged, or if the act is the necessary consequence of some other criminal act in which he was engaged, or where the act charged was the probable result of the act contemplated, who either foresaw or ought to have foreseen the consequence and yet persisted in the unlawful act in which he was engaged. Halsburys Laws of England. |