Unsecured creditors can still pursue claims against someone filing for bankruptcy if the debt was incurred through "willful and malicious injury" to them.

He committed the crime barely a month after being convicted of crimen iniuria, assault and malicious injury to property, for which offences he had received a suspended sentence.

Arson is only a particular form of the crime of malicious injury to property.

If movable property is set alight, the crime of malicious injury to property may be committed, provided that the other requirements are met.

As in malicious injury to property, one cannot in principle commit arson in respect of one's own property.

Section 6 was replaced, in so far as it related to malicious injuries to property, by section 35 of the Malicious Damage Act 1861.

He was tried on the charge of malicious injury with intent to murder.

"At the very least it should be considered willful and malicious injury."

The bankruptcy laws in California, he said, prohibit debtors from avoiding judgments if they involved "willful and malicious injury" to another person.

Section 28 replaces section 3 of the Arson Act 1846 (malicious injuries by fire).