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Male
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MaleOf the masculine sex; of the sex that begets young; the sex opposed to the female.
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Masculine
That which belongs to the male sex.
Sex
The physical difference between male and female in animals.
Female
This term denotes the sex which bears young.
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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
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
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.
Malfeasance
Contracts, torts. The unjust performance of some act which the party had no right, or which he had contracted not to do. It differs from mis- feasance and nonfeasance.
Malice
"Criminal 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 will, and who, on the contrary, was his friend, happened to eat it, and die, A will be guilty of murdering C with malice aforethought. 2) Torts. The doing any act injurious to another without a just cause.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Masculine
That which belongs to the male sex.
Sex
The physical difference between male and female in animals.
Female
This term denotes the sex which bears young.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
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
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
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.
Malfeasance
Contracts, torts. The unjust performance of some act which the party had no right, or which he had contracted not to do. It differs from mis- feasance and nonfeasance.
Malice
"Criminal 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 will, and who, on the contrary, was his friend, happened to eat it, and die, A will be guilty of murdering C with malice aforethought. 2) Torts. The doing any act injurious to another without a just cause.
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