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malice in fact en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Provable intent to commit a crime or otherwise do harm.
   • But falsehood and want of probable cause are in themselves evidence of malice in fact. 1845 January, Peter Vivian Daniel, “White v. Nicholls et al.”, in Benjamin C. Howard, editor, United States Reports, volume 44, Philadelphia: T & J. W. Johnson, page 281:
   • 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 […] 1888 June 6, William Vernon Harcourt, parliamentary debates (House of Commons):

Antonyms

malice in law