Express malice

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Case Law, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

Definitions from Case Law

United States Supreme Court

deliberate premeditation and design, formed in advance, to kill or to do bodily harm, the premeditation and design being implied from external circumstances capable of proof, such as lying in wait, antecedent threats, and concerted schemes against a victim.

Defined by the Supreme Court in Sparf v. United States, 156 U.S. 51.

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Actual malice or malice in fact, existing when one actually contemplates the injury or wrong which he inflicts. 1 Clark & Marshall, Crimes, p. 144. See "Malice."

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

In murder, a sedate and deliberate mind and formed design to kill, evidenced by external circumstances discovering that inward intention. See 30 Tex. App. 129, 28 Am. St. Rep. 895, 16 S. W. 767; malice which is proved as opposed to implied malice; malice in fact. See 2 Tex. Civ. App. 107, 21 S. W. 384.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Actuni malice; malice in fact; a deliberate intention to commit an injury, evidenced by external circumstances. Sparf v. U. S., 156 U. S. 61, 15 Sup. Ct. 273, 39 In Ed. 348: Farrer v. State, 42 Tex. 271; Singleton v. State, 1 Tex. App. 507; Jones v. State, 29 Ga. 594; Wynne v. Parsons, 57 Conn. 73, 17 Atl. 362; Howard v. Sexton, 4 N. Y. 161; Herbener v. Crossan, 4 Pennewili (Del.) 38, 55 Atl. 224.

Defined under Malice in Black's Law Dictionary.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

Actual malice; malicein fact; a deliberate intention tocommitan injury, evidenced by external circumstances.