To feign sickness or any physical disablement or mental lapse or de-rangement, especially for the purpose of escaping the performance of a task, duty, or work
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Evincing malice; done with malice and an evil design; willful
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The wrongful or unjust doing of some act which the doer has no right to perform, or which he has stipulated by contract not to do. It differs from “misfeasance” and “non-feasance,” (which titles see.) See 1 Chit Pr. 9; 1 Chit Pl. 134; Dudley v. Flemlngsburg, 115 Ky. 5, 72 S. W. 327, 60 L. R. A. 575, 103 Am. St. Rep. 253; Colte v. Lynes, 33 Conn. 115; Bell v. Josse-iyn, 3 Gray (Mass.) 311, 63 Am. Dec. 741
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In Spanish law. Offense. white, New Recop. b. 2, tlt. 19, C. 1, I 1
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He who is guilty, or has been convicted, of some crime or offense
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In the civil law. waste; damage; tort; injury. Dig. 5, 18, L
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A curse, which was anciently annexed to donations of lands made to churches or religious houses, agaiust those w’ho should violate their rights. Cowell
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In old English law. Unfavorably thought of; in bad repute or credit. Bract fols. 116, 154
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In Hindu law. Judicial; belonging to a judge or magistrate
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A hill where the people assembled at a court, like the English assiz-es; which by the Scotch and Irish were called “parley hills.” Du Cange
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This term is used, in the law-books, interchangeably with mis-adminlstratlon, and both words mean “wrong administration.” Minkler v. State, 14 Neb. 183, 15 N. W. 331
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In old English law. A thief or pirate, wals. 338
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Fr. In old French law. A term said to have arisen from the usurious gains of the Jews and Lombards in their management of the public revenue. Stepb. Lect 37X
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In old practice. The formality of denying a plaintiff’s charge under oath, in open court, with compurga-tors. one of the ancient methods of trial, frequently, though inaccurately, termed “waging law,” or “wager of law.” 3 Bl. Comm. 341
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L. Fr. Against the will; without the consent. Hence the slngle word “malgre,” and more modern “ mail g re,” (q.v
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Full age; the age at which, by law, a person is entitled to the manage-ment of his own affairs and to the enjoyment of civic rights. The opposite of minority. Also tlie status of a person who is a major in age
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In old practice. Greater right or more right. A plea in the old real actions. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 470. Majus jus mcrum, more mere right Bract, fol. 3L
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The king’s dig-nity, power, and royal prerogative, as op-posed to his revenue, which is comprised in the minora regalia. 2 Steph. Comm. 475; 1 Bl. Comm. 240
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