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malice
Last modified: Thu Feb 23 16:37:37 2006
The term `malice' as it appears in, for example, the
OffencesAgainstThePersonAct1861 is generally
taken to mean something different from its everyday usage.
An act is malicious if the perpetrator was aware that harm or
damage was likely, but did it anyway. The act need not necessarily
be hostile, or `wicked'.
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