Malitia

Lat Actual evil design; express malice.

— Malitia praecogitata. Malice aforethought.

I. An express evil design; malice. Malitia excogitata: meditated malice. Malitia prsecogitata: malice aforethought, evil intended beforehand. Malitia supplet aetatem: malice supplies [or makes up for] age; wickedness of design supplies the want of age.

Lat. Actual evil design; express malice, Malitia est acida; est mali animi affectus. Malice is sour; it is the quality of a bad mind. 2 Bulst. 49. Malitia supplet etatem. Malice supplies [the want of]age. Dyer, 1048, Broom, Max. 316. Malitiis hominum est obviandum. The wicked or malicious designs of men must be thwarted. 4 Coke, 156.

Vicious will; evil design; wickedness; malice. Compare Dolus; Malus. Malitia supplet setatem. Viciousness makes up for age; a wicked design supplies the want of years. Between seven and fourteen an infant is prima facie incapable of criminal intention. Evidence of naischievous discretion will rebut this presumption.'

Actual evil design; express malice. See Mali(5b. Malitia supplet aetatem. Malice supplies (or makes up for) age; wickedness of design supplies the want of age. Between the ages of seven and fourteen years an infant is deemed, prima facie, to be doli incapax, — incapable of criminal intention; but this presumption may be rebutted by evidence that he is possessed of a mischievous discretion, or is doli capax, in which case he may be found guilty of felony, and punished capitally.