To sustain an action for malicious prosecution, the following elements must each be proved: (1) The commencement or continuation of an original criminal or civil judicial proceeding; (2) its legal causation by the present defendant against the plaintiff, who was the defendant in the original proceeding; (3) its bona fide termination in favor of the present plaintiff; (4) the absence of probable cause for such proceeding; (5) the presence of malice therein; (6) damage conforming to legal standards, resulting to plaintiff.2