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Mala fides






Mala fides

Bad faith. It is opposed to bona fides, good faith.

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Faith
Probity; good faith is the very soul of contracts. Faith also signifies confidence, belief; as, full faith and credit ought to be given to the acts of a magistrate while acting within his jurisdiction.

Bona
Goods and chattels. In the Roman law, it signifies every kind of property, real, personal, and mixed, but chiefly it was applied to real estates; chattels being chiefly distinguished by the words, effects, movables

Fides
Latin. Trust, confidence, reliance; credence, belief, faith.



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Mala fide
In, with, or by bad faith.

Mala praxis
Criminal law. A Latin expression, to signify bad or unskilful practice in a physician or other professional person, as a midwife, whereby the health of the patient is injured.

Mala prohibita
Those things which are prohibited by law, and therefore unlawful.



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Majores
The male ascendant beyond the sixth degree were so called among the Romaus, and the term is still used in making genealogical tables.

Majority
1) Persons. The state or condition of a person who has arrived at full age. He is then said to be a major, in opposition to minor, which is his condition during infancy. 2) Government. The greater number of the voters; though in another sense, it means the greater number of votes given in which sense it is a mere plurality.

Maker
This term is applied to one who makes a promissory note and promises to pay it when due. He who makes a bill of exchange is called the drawer, and frequently in common parlance and in books of Reports we find the word drawer inaccurately applied to the maker of a promissory note.

Making his law
A phrase used to denote the act of a person who wages his law.

Mala fide
In, with, or by bad faith.

Mala fides

Mala praxis
Criminal law. A Latin expression, to signify bad or unskilful practice in a physician or other professional person, as a midwife, whereby the health of the patient is injured.

Mala prohibita
Those things which are prohibited by law, and therefore unlawful.

Male
Of the masculine sex; of the sex that begets young; the sex opposed to the female.

Malediction
Ecclesiastical law. A curse which was anciently annexed to donations of lands made to churches and religious houses, against those who should violate their rights.

Malefactor
He who bas been guilty of some crime; in another sense, one who has been convicted of having committed a crime.

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