mala praxis
mala praxis (mal-[schwa] prak-sis). [Law Latin] Hist. Malpractice; unskilled treatment, esp. by a doctor. “Injuries, affecting a man’s health, are where by any unwholesome practices of another a man sustains any apparent damage in his vigor or constitution. As by selling him bad provisions or wine … or by the neglect or unskilful management of […]