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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Malum in Se

(Latin). What is of itself wrong, and would be so even if no law existed against its commission, as lying, murder, theft.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Malum Prohibitum
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