...chattels of the plaintiff below as and for bad, though it alleges it to have been done malicuMuly,— for, an act which does not amount to a legal injury, cannot be actionable became it is done witb a bad intent. 2. A. obtained certain goods by purchase from the sheriff under...

...the rent was "maliciously" made. This was deemed an immaterial circumstance ; the court saying that an act which does not amount to a legal injury, cannot...be actionable because it is done with a bad intent. Newnham v. Stevenson fyc. 3 Eng. Law & Eq. 512; Stevetisou v. Newnham, 13 Com. Bench (4 J. Scott) 297,...

...distrained for more rent than was really due ; and it was nevertheless held that the count was bad, for an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad (ct) Before Coleridge, J., Muult, Crowdcr, J. J., Wiffhlman, J., Erie, J., Wit- (6) 16 QB 669. liaint,...

...Charles, 6 Bing. 396 ; 7 62. Bing. 104. * Yonng v. Hall, 4 Geo. 95. See 6 Jordan v. Wyatt, 4 Gratt. 151. a legal injury, cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad intent.i Thus a count in case, for distraining for more rent than was due, is bad, though alleging...

...damage, no cause of action (;«); nor does it make any difference that it was done "maliciously,"' for an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...be actionable, because it is done with a bad intent (it). In Walter v. Rumbal, Ld. Raym. 53, it was held, that notice to the owner (who was not the tenant)...

...there was no combination but only an act by the defendant expressing his own views, and as holding that an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable on account of a bad motive. In Giblan v. National Amalgamated Laborers' Union, (1903) 2 KB Div. 600,...

...been abundantly shown to be justified by the authorities, even if it were not in itself a mere truism. 'An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...actionable because it is done with a bad intent.' 'Any transaction which would be lawful and proper if the parties were friends cannot be made the foundation...

...prejudiced because the invasion of his right was unintentional.7 We may add that whilst, on the one hand, "an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done 1 Bac. Max., reg. 15 ; D. 47 ; 10, 18, { 3 : Wood. Inst. 307 ; R. r. Oneby, 2 Ld. Raym. 1489: Reg....

...legal right to establish a new business, and his motives in doing so are not to be enquired into.39 "An act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot...be actionable because it is done with a bad intent. "4° This remark was made in a case where a landlord was charged with having maliciously distrained...

...landlord for distraining for more rent than is really due to allege it to have been done maliciously, for an act which does not amount to a legal injury cannot be actionable because it is done with a bad intent(r). 734 Repeated distresses for the same rent. — A landlord cannot lawfully distrain twice...