Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Mala

Mala , noun, plural

[Latin]

Evils; wrongs; offenses against right and law.
Collocations (2)
Mala in se (Law) , offenses which are such from their own nature, at common law, irrespective of statute.
Mala prohibita (Law) , offenses prohibited by statute, as distinguished from mala in se, which are offenses at common law.