dolus

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dolus - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Dolus \Do"lus\, n. [L., deceit; akin to Gr. ?.] (Law)
     Evil intent, embracing both malice and fraud. See Culpa.
     --Wharton.
     [1913 Webster]

dolus - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  DOLUS, civil law. A fraudulent address or trick used to deceive some one; a 
  fraud. Dig. 4, 3, 1; Code, 2, 21. 
       2. Dolus differs from fault in this, that the latter proceeds from an 
  error of the understanding; while to constitute the former there must be a 
  will or intention to do wrong. Wolff, Inst. Sec. 17.