Section 51-7-2. Malice defined  


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