Usually means: Wrong by its very nature.
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General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. malum in se: Wiktionary
  2. malum in se: Dictionary.com
  3. Malum in se: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. Malum in Se: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. malum in se: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. malum in se: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. Malum in se: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (malum in se)

noun:  (literally) A wrong in itself; that which is injurious in its consequence.
noun:  (law) 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.

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