bad faith
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Case Law, Black's (1910)
Definitions from Case Law
From 69 U.S. 110 - Murray v. Lardner · 1864Most cited · 238 citing opinions
guilty knowledge and wilful ignorance alike involve the result of bad faith. They are the same in effect.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
The opposite of "good fnith," generally implying or involving actual or constructive fraud, or a design to mislead or deceive another, or a neglect or refusal to fulfill some duty or some contractual obligation, not prompted by an honest mistake as to one's rights or duties, but by some interested or sinister motive. Hiigenberg v. Northup, 134 Ind. 92, 33 N. E. 786; Morton v. Immigration Ass'n, 79 Ala. 617; Coleman v. Billings, 89 111. 191; Lewis v. Holmes, 109 La. 1030, 34 South. 66, 61 L. It. A. 274 ; Harris v. Harris, 70 Pa. 174; Penn Mut. L. Ins. Co. v. Trust Co., 73 Fed. 653, 19 C. C. A. 316, 38 L. R. A. 33, 70; Insurance Co. v. Edwards, 74 Ga. 230.
Defined under Bad in Black's Law Dictionary.