Legal Definition and Related Resources of Mischief

Used in relation to statutes, the term denotes the evil or danger which the statute is intended to cure or avoid .

noun

• annoyance
• criminality
• cruelty
• damage
• damnum
• danger
• detriment
• devilment
• deviltry
• disservice
• evil
• evil conduct
• fault
• foul play
• frolicsomeness
• harm
• harmful action
• hurt
• ill consequence
• impishness
• incommodum
• infliction
• injurious conduct
• injuriousness
• injury
• injustice
• knavery
• maleficium
• malicious action
• malignity
• maltreatment
• meanness
• misbehavior
• misconduct
• misdoing
• misusage
• molestation
• nastiness
• naughtiness
• nuisance
• outrage
• playfulness
• prankishness
• puckishness
• rascality
• roguery
• roguishness
• ruin
• transgression
• trouble
• vice
• villainy
• waggery
• waggishness
• wickedness
• wrong
• wrongdoing Associated Concepts: malicious mischief

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