How to pronounce “malum in se”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (literally) A wrong in itself; that which is injurious in its consequence.
• (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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