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Malum prohibitum

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A wrong prohibited; a thing which is wrong because prohibited; an act which is not inherently immoral, but becomes so because its commission is expressly forbidden by positive law; an act involving an illegality resulting from positive law. Contrasted with malum in se.

Story, Ag. § 346.