English
Etymology
From L. directly.
Phrase
malum prohibitum (plural: mala prohibita)
- (literal translation): Wrong because prohibited; bad because against the law.
- law The Latin phrase used in law to refer to an action that is not inherently evil, but is nevertheless illegal only because prohibited, as opposed to malum in se. A malum prohibitum offense is something that is wrong only because a statute makes it so, or by consensus that society agrees to prohibit the act, and is typically regulatory in nature and often result in no direct injury or danger to the person, entity, or property but only merely create the danger or probability of it which the statute attempts to minimize. Used to develop consensual crimes.
See also
consensual crime
public order crime
victimless crime
Economics
Latin
See English above.
Category:Criminal law
Category:Law
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