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Mala praxis
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Mala praxisCriminal 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.
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Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Expression
The term or use of language employed to explain a thing.
Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
Physician
One lawfully engaged in the practice of medicine.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Midwife
Medical jurisprudence. A woman who practices midwifery; a woman who pursues the business of an account.
Health
"1) Freedom from pain or sickness; the most perfect state of animal life. It may be defined, the natural agreement and concordant dispositions of the parts of the living body. 2) Public health is an object of the utmost importance and has attracted the attention of the national and state legislatures.
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Mala fide
In, with, or by bad faith.
Mala fides
Bad faith. It is opposed to bona fides, good faith.
Mala prohibita
Those things which are prohibited by law, and therefore unlawful.
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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
Bad faith. It is opposed to bona fides, good faith.
Mala praxis
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.
Maleficium
Civil law. Waste, damage, torts, injury.
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Criminal
Relating to, or having the character of crime
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
Expression
The term or use of language employed to explain a thing.
Practice
The form, manner and order of conducting and carrying on suits or prosecutions in the courts through their various stages, according, to the principles of law, and the rules laid down by the respective courts.
Physician
One lawfully engaged in the practice of medicine.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Midwife
Medical jurisprudence. A woman who practices midwifery; a woman who pursues the business of an account.
Health
"1) Freedom from pain or sickness; the most perfect state of animal life. It may be defined, the natural agreement and concordant dispositions of the parts of the living body. 2) Public health is an object of the utmost importance and has attracted the attention of the national and state legislatures.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Mala fide
In, with, or by bad faith.
Mala fides
Bad faith. It is opposed to bona fides, good faith.
Mala prohibita
Those things which are prohibited by law, and therefore unlawful.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
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
Bad faith. It is opposed to bona fides, good faith.
Mala praxis
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.
Maleficium
Civil law. Waste, damage, torts, injury.
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