Malfeasance
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
fr., Maleficium, /. Wrong-doing, crime. Maleficia non debent remanere impunita; et impunitas continuum affectum tribuit delinquenti: crimes ought not to remain unpunished; and impunity gives a continual impulse to the criminal [to commit another crime]. Maleficia'propositia: crimes are distinguished by the purposes which »