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  • 21wilful and malicious injury — An injury to property inflicted intentionally and in disregard of duty. Re Dixon (DC NY) 21 172d 565. Within the meaning of the exception of certain liabilities from discharge in bankruptcy: injury to person or property inflicted intentionally… …

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  • 22wilful and wanton misconduct — A deliberate and intentional wrong. Antonen v Swanson, 74 SD 1, 48 NW2d 161, 28 ALR2d I (phrase in statute respecting liability of motorist for injury to guest). Under a statute which imposes liability on the driver of a car for injury to a guest …

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  • 23wilful failure — See wilful default …

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  • 24wilful injury — An injury produced by an act intended to have such effect. Parker v Pennsylvania Co. 134 Ind 673, 34 NE 504. An injury inflicted designedly and intentionally. Wunderlich v Frankl61 (CA5 Ala) 100 F2d 164. An injury accompanied by a design, purpose …

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  • 25wilful refusal — A refusal that is both intentional and unreasonable. Vermilye v Postal Telegraph Cable Co. 205 Mass 598, 91 NE 904. A wife s continued and persistent refusal to have sexual intercourse with her husband unless he wore a contraceptive sheath does… …

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  • 26wilful trespasser — One who trespasses with knowledge that he is a trespasser. One who knowingly and wilfully encroaches or enters upon the land of another and takes his minerals without color or claim of right, or who dishonestly or in bad faith mines minerals of… …

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  • 27wilful violation — A deliberate and purposeful failure to comply with a statute. Anno: 97 L Ed 270. See wilful default …

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  • 28wilful — adjective see willful …

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  • 29wilful — wilfully, adv. wilfulness, n. /wil feuhl/, adj. willful. * * * …

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  • 30wilful — adjective a) intentional; deliberate b) stubborn and determined Syn: voluntary See Also: volition …

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