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To malign or slander; also to maim Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

To feign sickness or any physical disablement or mental lapse or de-rangement, especially for the purpose of escaping the performance of a […]

In oriminal law. In its Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Evincing malice; done with malice and an evil design; willful Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

The wrongful or unjust doing of some act which the doer has no right to perform, or which he has stipulated by […]

In Spanish law. Offense. white, New Recop. b. 2, tlt. 19, C. 1, I 1 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

or MALISON. A curse Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

N, or MALSWORN. For-sworn. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

He who is guilty, or has been convicted, of some crime or offense Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In the civil law. waste; damage; tort; injury. Dig. 5, 18, L Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A curse, which was anciently annexed to donations of lands made to churches or religious houses, agaiust those w’ho should violate their […]

A crime; an ofTense Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Hindu law. A treasury or store-house Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. Unfavorably thought of; in bad repute or credit. Bract fols. 116, 154 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

In Hindu law. Judicial; belonging to a judge or magistrate Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A hill where the people assembled at a court, like the English assiz-es; which by the Scotch and Irish were called “parley […]

This term is used, in the law-books, interchangeably with mis-adminlstratlon, and both words mean “wrong administration.” Minkler v. State, 14 Neb. 183, […]

In old English law. A thief or pirate, wals. 338 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Fr. In old French law. A term said to have arisen from the usurious gains of the Jews and Lombards in their […]

Lat. Bad; evil; wrongful Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old practice. The formality of denying a plaintiff’s charge under oath, in open court, with compurga-tors. one of the ancient methods […]

L. Fr. Against the will; without the consent. Hence the slngle word “malgre,” and more modern “ mail g re,” (q.v Source: […]

Full age; the age at which, by law, a person is entitled to the manage-ment of his own affairs and to the […]

In old practice. Greater right or more right. A plea in the old real actions. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 470. Majus jus […]

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. […]