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Definition of Malicious mischief

1. Noun. Willful wanton and malicious destruction of the property of others.

Definition of Malicious mischief

1. Noun. (legal) The willful, wanton, or reckless destruction of the personal property of another occasioned by actual ill will or resentment toward the owner or possessor of such property. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Malicious Mischief

Literary usage of Malicious mischief

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"On trial for malicious mischief, evidence of ill will on the part of ... WOODS, J. The defendant was convicted of malicious mischief in burning a lot of ..."

2. Handbook of Criminal Law by William Lawrence Clark, William Ephraim Mikell (1915)
"malicious mischief 110. malicious mischief is a misdemeanor at common law, and, though there is much conflict in the authorities, may be generally defined ..."

3. Handbook of Criminal Law by William Lawrence Clark, William Ephraim Mikell (1915)
"malicious mischief ll0. malicious mischief is a misdemeanor at common law, and, ... There is no doubt that malicious mischief is a common- law crime, ..."

4. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
""malicious mischief, or damage amounting to a crime, is defined by Blackstone to ... "malicious mischief, at common law, Is the willful destruction of some ..."

5. A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States by Francis Wharton (1874)
"malicious mischief in this country, as a common law offence, has received a far more extended interpretation than k See Wharton's follows : — (470) ..."

6. A Treatise on the Law of Criminal Evidence: Including the Rules Regulating by Harry Clay Underhill (1898)
"malicious mischief.—This offense includes all acts of unnecessary and malicious injury to the property of others which impair the utility or diminish the ..."

7. Ruling Case Law as Developed and Established by the Decisions and by William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich (1915)
"The crime known as malicious mischief has no well defined meaning, ... Blackstone speaks of malicious mischief at common law as trespass which had been made ..."

8. Commentaries on the Criminal Law by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1877)
"The offence.of malicious mischief is both common-law and statutory, but chiefly the latter; the statutes are very numerous and diverse; and it is allied to ..."

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