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Latin, meaning Malice supplies age. … [Read more...] about MALITIA SUPPLET AESATEM

French law. This word is applied to all punishable faults committed in the exercise of an office, such as corruptions, exactions, extortions and larceny. Merl. Repert. b. t. … [Read more...] about MALVERSATIO

Those things which are prohibited by law, and therefore unlawful. 2. A distinction was formerly made in respect of contracts, between mala prohibita and mala in se; but that distinction has been exploded, and, it is now established that when the provisions of an act of the legislature have for their object the protection of the public, it makes no difference with respect to … [Read more...] about MALA PROHIBITA

(A) crim. law. A wicked intention to do an injury. It is not confined to the intention of doing an injury to any particular person, but extends to an evil design, a corrupt and wicked notion against some one at the time of committing the crime; as, if A intended to poison B, conceals a quantity of poison in an apple and puts it in the way of B, and C, against whom he had no ill … [Read more...] about MALICE

In old European law. A court of the higher kind in which the more important business of the county was dispatched by the count or earl. Spelman. A public national assembly. … [Read more...] about MALLUM