IN MALA FIDE

in mala fide (in mal-[schwa] fI-dee). [Latin] Hist. In bad faith. “A possessor in mala fide is one who holds possession of a subject, in the knowledge that it is not his own, on a title which he knows, or has reasonable ground for believing to be a bad one.” John Trayner, Trayner’s Latin Maxims […]