wanton and wilful

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• serious and wilful misconduct — In worker s compensation law, the intentional doing of something with the knowledge that it is likely to result in a serious injury, or with a wanton and reckless disregard of its probable consequences …   Black's law dictionary

• serious and wilful misconduct — Deliberate misconduct, something more than mere negligence or even gross or culpable negligence. Conduct to which moral blame attaches the intentional doing of something either with the knowledge that it is likely to result in serious injury or… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• wilful misconduct — Deliberate disobedience of the law, inclusive of acts of omission as well as acts of commission. The intentional doing, or omitting to do something, either with the knowledge that such act or omission is likely to result in harm or with a wanton… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• wilful 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 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• wilful default — A conscious abstention by an obligor from doing that which reasonably and under the terms of the obligation he should have done. Anno: 75 ALR 352. An intentional, although not necessarily malicious, wanton, or evil, failure to comply with a… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• wilful and wanton act — An act premeditated or performed with knowledge that injury is likely to result therefrom. 38 Am J1st Negl § 48 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• wilful and wanton negligence — A paradoxical expression, since the adjectives imply premeditation or consciousness of danger to another, while negligence implied inadvertence, but described as a reckless disregard of the safety of the person or property of another by failing,… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• willful — Proceeding from a conscious motion of the will; voluntary; knowingly; deliberate. Intending the result which actually comes to pass; designed; intentional; purposeful; not accidental or involuntary. Premeditated; malicious; done with evil intent …   Black's law dictionary

• vandalism — Wilful or malicious injury to, or the destruction of, property. General Acci. Fire & Life Assur. Corp. v Azar, 103 Ga App 215, 119 SE2d 82. Wilful, wanton, and ruthless acts intended to damage or destroy property. 7 Am J2d Auto Ins § 75. Any… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• negligence — The omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by those ordinary considerations which ordinarily regulate human affairs, would do, or the doing of something which a reasonable and prudent man would not do. Negligence is the failure… …   Black's law dictionary

• negligence — The omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by those ordinary considerations which ordinarily regulate human affairs, would do, or the doing of something which a reasonable and prudent man would not do. Negligence is the failure… …   Black's law dictionary