Constructive malice
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Implied malice; malice inferred from acts; malice imputed bj law; malice which is not shown by direct proof of an intention to do injury, (express malice,) but which is inferentially established by the necessarily injurious results of the acts shown to have been committed.
State v. Har-rigan, 9 Houst. (Del.) 369, 31 Atl. 1052; Hogan, v. State, 36 Wis. 238; Caldwell v. Raymond, 2 Abb. Prac. (N. Y.) 196,