malum in se

短语

[法] 不法, 不法行为

词形变化

mala in se 复数 mala in se

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A wrong in itself; that which is injurious in its consequence.

  2. 2.

    The Latin phrase used in law to refer to crimes that are illegal from the nature of crime, that is, inherently evil without any fact of being noticed or punished, as opposed to malum prohibitum. Used to develop common law crimes.

    法律

词源

From Latin malum, the neuter of malus (“bad”) + in (“in”) + se, form of sui (“oneself, itself”).

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