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Dolus

A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889

A Dictionary of Law

Device, artifice, guile, craft, itention to deceive, — especially when used,'itli mahis: actual fraud. Evil purpose; nlawful intention, illegal ill-will; legal lalice. Compare Culpa. Doli capax. Able to distinguish between ight and wrong; having capacity to intend i Tong, to cotumit crime. Doli incapax. ncapable of meditating wrong. Capacity for gu Ut is measured by the strength of lie understanding. Under seven years of age, an inant cannot be guilty of felony; under fourteen, bough he be prima facie adjudged doU incapax, yet E it appears that he was doli capax, and could discern letween good and evil, he may be convicted.* Dolus bonus. Craftiness which falls short >f fraud; as, adroitness in effecting a sale, lot amounting to false representation.

Dolus malus

Actual false representaion, intended to injure. Ex dolo malo. See Ac Tiq. See Deceit; Fraud.