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Excerpt from The Revised Reports, 1852-1853, Vol. 93: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English Courts of Common Law and Equity, From the Year 1785, as Are Still of Practical Utility; 1 Ellis and Blackburn, 13 Common Bench, 16 Jurist
There are two cases in this volume of which the import ance has rather increased in our own time. In Stevenson v. Newa it was laid down by the Exchequer Chamber (at p. 537) that an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad intent in other words, does not become actionable because a pleader avers that it was done maliciously and a jury is induced to find that it was so in fact. This rule was conclusively affirmed by the House of Lords in the well known case of Allen v. Flood [1898] A. C. 1. At the time it was supposed.
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