{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-51-7-2","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 51-7-2","heading":"Malice defined.","body":"Malice consists in personal spite or in a general disregard of the right consideration of mankind, directed by chance against the individual injured.","path":["TITLE 51 Torts","CHAPTER 7 False Arrest, False Imprisonment, Malicious Prosecution, and Abusive Litigation","Article 1 False Arrest"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.51.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:58Z","sha256":"f968c9d523287732671ce7e14c7bd747f4a0e943d27f20379260896463e89fc8","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-51-7-1","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-51-7-3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}