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  • MAL
    A prefix meaning bad, wrong, fraudulent; as maladministration, malpractice, malversation, etc.
  • MAL GREE
    L. Fr. Against the will; without the consent. Hence the single word "rooipre," and more modern "maugre," (q. v.)
  • MAL-TOLTE
    Fr. In old French law. A term said to have arisen from the usurious gains of the Jews and Lombards in their management of the public revenue. Steph. Lect 372L.
  • MALA
    Lat. Bad; evil; wrongful. -Mala fides. Bad faith. The opposite of bona fides, (q. v.) Maid fide, in bad faith. Make fidei possessor, a possessor in bad faith. Mackeld. Rom. Law, s 297.-Mala in se. Wrongs in themselves; acts morally wrong; offenses against conscience. 1 Bl. Comm. 57. 58; 4 More...
  • MALADMINISTRATION
    This term is used, in the law-books, interchangeably with mfe-administration, and both words mean "wrong administration." Minkler v. State, 14 Neb. 183, 15 N. W. 331.
  • MALANDRINUS
    In old English law. A thief or pirate. Wals. 338.
  • MALARY
    In Hindu law. Judicial; belonging to a judge or magistrate.
  • MALBERGE
    A hill where the people assembled at a court, like the English assizes; which by the Scotch and Irish were called "parley hills." Du Cange.
  • MALCONNA
    In Hiudu law. A treasury or store-house.
  • MALE
    Of the masculine sex; of the sex that begets young.
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