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  • MALTREATMENT
    In reference to the treatment of his patient by a surgeon, this term signifles improper or unskillful treatment; it may result either from ignorance, neglect, or willfulness; but the word does not necessarily imply that the conduct of the surgeon, in his treatment of the patient, is either willfully or More...
  • MALUM
    n. Lat. In Roman law. A mast; the mast of a ship. Dig. 50, 17, 242, pr. Held to be part of the ship. Id.
  • MALUM
    adj. Lat Wrong; evil; wicked reprehensible. -Malum iu se. A wrong in itself; an act or case involving illegality from the very nature of the transaction, upon principles of natural, moral, and public law. Story, Ag. ? 346. An act is said to be malum in se when it is More...
  • MALVEILLES
    In old English law. Ill will; crimes and misdemeanors; malicious practices. Cowell.
  • MALVEIS PROCURORS
    L. Fr. Such as used to pack juries, by the nomination of either party in a cause, or other practice. Cowell.
  • MALVEISA
    A warlike engine to batter and beat down walls.
  • MALVERSATION
    In French law. This word is applied to all grave and punishable faults committed in the exercise of a charge or commission, (office,) such as corruption, exaction, concussion, larceny. Merl. Repert
  • MAN
    A human being. A person of the male sex. A male of the human species above the age of puberty. In feudal law. A vassal; a tenant or feudatory. The Anglo-Saxon relation of lord and man was originally purely personal, and founded on mutual contract. 1 Spence, Ch. 37. -Man More...
  • MANACLES
    Chains for the hands; shackles.
  • MANAGE
    To conduct; to carry on; to direct the concerns of a business or establishment. Generally applied to affairs that are somewhat complicated and that involve skin and judgment Com. v. Johnson, 144 Pa. 377, 22 Atl. 703; Roberts v. Stote, 26 Fla. 360, 7 South. 861; Ure v. Ure, 185 More...
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