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Malicious abandonment
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Malicious abandonmentThe forsaking without a just cause a husband by the wife, or a wife by her husband.
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Without
Pleading. This word is adopted in formal traverses, and is a negative signifying "and not for;" accordingly the language of the elder entries sometimes is, It et nemy pur tiel cause.
Just
This epithet is applied to that which agrees with a given law which is the test of right and wrong. It is that which accords with the perfect rights of others. By just is also understood full and perfect, as a just weight.
Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.
Husband
Maritime law. The name of an agent who is authorized to make the necessary repairs to a ship, and to act in relation to the ship, generally, for the owner. He is usually called ship's hushand.
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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.
Malice aforethought
Pleadings. In an indictment for murder, these words, which have a technical force, must be used in charging the offence; for without them, and the artificial phrase murder, the indictment will be taken to charge manslaughter only. Fost. 424; Yelv. 205; 1 Chit. Cr. Law, *242, and the authorities and cases there cited.
Malicious
With bad, and unlawful motives; wicked.
Malicious desertion
The act of a hushand or wife, in leaving a consort, without just cause, for the purpose of causing a perpetual separation.
Malicious mischief
This expression is applied to the wanton or reckless de- struction of property, and the wilful perpetration of injury to the person.
Malicious prosecution
Torts, or remedies. These terms import a wanton prosecution or arrest, made by a prosecutor in a criminal proceeding, or a plaintiff in a civil suit, without probable cause, by a regular process and proceeding, which the facts did not warrant, as appears by the result.
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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.
Malice aforethought
Pleadings. In an indictment for murder, these words, which have a technical force, must be used in charging the offence; for without them, and the artificial phrase murder, the indictment will be taken to charge manslaughter only. Fost. 424; Yelv. 205; 1 Chit. Cr. Law, *242, and the authorities and cases there cited.
Malicious
With bad, and unlawful motives; wicked.
Malicious abandonment
Malicious desertion
The act of a hushand or wife, in leaving a consort, without just cause, for the purpose of causing a perpetual separation.
Malicious mischief
This expression is applied to the wanton or reckless de- struction of property, and the wilful perpetration of injury to the person.
Malicious prosecution
Torts, or remedies. These terms import a wanton prosecution or arrest, made by a prosecutor in a criminal proceeding, or a plaintiff in a civil suit, without probable cause, by a regular process and proceeding, which the facts did not warrant, as appears by the result.
Malpractice
Any professional misconduct.
Malum in se
Evil in itself.
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Without
Pleading. This word is adopted in formal traverses, and is a negative signifying "and not for;" accordingly the language of the elder entries sometimes is, It et nemy pur tiel cause.
Just
This epithet is applied to that which agrees with a given law which is the test of right and wrong. It is that which accords with the perfect rights of others. By just is also understood full and perfect, as a just weight.
Cause
1) Civil law. It signifies the delivery of the thing, or the accomplishment of the act which is the object of a convention. 2) It is the consideration or motive for making a contract. 3) Pleading. The reason; the motive. 4) Practice. A contested question before a court of justice; it is a Suit or action.
Husband
Maritime law. The name of an agent who is authorized to make the necessary repairs to a ship, and to act in relation to the ship, generally, for the owner. He is usually called ship's hushand.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
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.
Malice aforethought
Pleadings. In an indictment for murder, these words, which have a technical force, must be used in charging the offence; for without them, and the artificial phrase murder, the indictment will be taken to charge manslaughter only. Fost. 424; Yelv. 205; 1 Chit. Cr. Law, *242, and the authorities and cases there cited.
Malicious
With bad, and unlawful motives; wicked.
Malicious desertion
The act of a hushand or wife, in leaving a consort, without just cause, for the purpose of causing a perpetual separation.
Malicious mischief
This expression is applied to the wanton or reckless de- struction of property, and the wilful perpetration of injury to the person.
Malicious prosecution
Torts, or remedies. These terms import a wanton prosecution or arrest, made by a prosecutor in a criminal proceeding, or a plaintiff in a civil suit, without probable cause, by a regular process and proceeding, which the facts did not warrant, as appears by the result.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
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.
Malice aforethought
Pleadings. In an indictment for murder, these words, which have a technical force, must be used in charging the offence; for without them, and the artificial phrase murder, the indictment will be taken to charge manslaughter only. Fost. 424; Yelv. 205; 1 Chit. Cr. Law, *242, and the authorities and cases there cited.
Malicious
With bad, and unlawful motives; wicked.
Malicious abandonment
Malicious desertion
The act of a hushand or wife, in leaving a consort, without just cause, for the purpose of causing a perpetual separation.
Malicious mischief
This expression is applied to the wanton or reckless de- struction of property, and the wilful perpetration of injury to the person.
Malicious prosecution
Torts, or remedies. These terms import a wanton prosecution or arrest, made by a prosecutor in a criminal proceeding, or a plaintiff in a civil suit, without probable cause, by a regular process and proceeding, which the facts did not warrant, as appears by the result.
Malpractice
Any professional misconduct.
Malum in se
Evil in itself.
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