单词 | mala praxis |
释义 | mala praxisn. Law. Medical malpractice. ΘΚΠ society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [noun] > malpractice by physician mala praxis1660 malpractice1671 malpraxis1860 1660 C. Merret Coll. Acts Parl., Charters, &c. facing sig. A Censors..may fine and imprison for mala praxis. 1684 C. Goodall Hist. Acct. College's Proc. against Empiricks in Royal Coll. Physicians London 331 Iohn Lumkin, a Surgeon..was afterwards charged for mala praxis upon several Patients (as his dropping of Oil of Sulphur into a Patient's eyes, from whence an inflammation ensued). a1733 Ld. Raymond Rep. Courts King's Bench & Common Pleas (1743) 1 214 The court resolved [in a judgment of 1697], that mala praxis is a great misdemeanor and offense at common law..because it breaks the trust which the party has placed in the physician, tending directly to his destruction. 1865 A. S. Taylor Princ. & Pract. Med. Jurispr. (1873) I. 15 A charge of malapraxis is sometimes raised against a medical man in consequence of the death of a patient. 1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1130/1 Mala praxis, where a medical practitioner injures his patient by neglect, want of skill, or for experiment. Ordinary cases of mala praxis give rise to a right of action for damages. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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