(law) Provable intent to commit a crime or otherwise do harm.

plural of malice murder

(Georgia) A criminal offence committed when a homicide is done with express or implied malice.

(organic chemistry) A colourless crystalline dicarboxylic acid, hydroxy-malonic acid, found in wine, apples and other fruit; it is converted to lactic acid by malolactic fermentation.

Malice aforethought.

(law) The criminal intent which precedes a crime, especially murder.

(law) In United States defamation law, the level of knowledge that must be demonstrated for a public figure to prevail as a plaintiff in a lawsuit for defamation; the defendant must have either known that information published about the plaintiff was false, or must have shown reckless disregard for the truth by not a making simple inquiry or investigation which would have disclosed it.