Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 51. TORTS · Chapter 7. FALSE ARREST, FALSE IMPRISONMENT, MALICIOUS PROSECUTION, AND ABUSIVE LITIGATION · Article 1. FALSE ARREST

51-7-2. Malice defined.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Malice consists in personal spite or in a general disregard of the right consideration of mankind, directed by chance against the individual injured.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 2936; Code 1868, § 2943; Code 1873, § 2994; Code 1882, § 2994; Civil Code 1895, § 3855; Civil Code 1910, § 4451; Code 1933, § 105-1002.

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