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Mala fides

Mala fides, bad faith; the opposite to bona fides, and opposit to good faith. Means want of good faith, personal bias, grudge,

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Mala fide

Mala fide, in bad faith. Mala fide, is not meaningless jargon. It has proper connotation. Mala fides depends upon its own facts and

trust

by a court to prevent the unjust enrichment of one who has wrongfully obtained (as through fraud or bad faith) title to the property or a property interest of another called also trust de son tort trust ex

Machiavelian

government as enunciated in his tract The Prince politically cunning characterized by duplicity political expediency unscrupulous cunning or bad faith crafty

Unclean hands

doctrine, a complainant will be denied relief if he or she has engaged in misconduct (as acting in bad faith) directly relating to the complaint. The condition of having engaged in such misconduct and being barred from equitable

Fault

or defect of judgment or of conduct any deviation from prudence or duly resulting from inattention, incapacity, perversity, bad faith, or mismanagement, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 623.

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