Ex Maleficio
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Growing out of, or founded upon, misdoing or tort. This term is frequently used in the civil law as the synonym of "ex delicto," (q. v.,) and is thus contrasted with "ex contractu." In this sense it is of more rare occurrence in the common law, though found in Bracton, (fols. 99, 101, 102.)