Meaning of MISFEASANCE
| Pronunciation: | | mis'feezuns
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| | Definition: | | [n] doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner |
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| | See Also: | | actus reus, misconduct, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Mis*fea"sance\, n. [OF. pref. mes- wrong (L. minus
less) + faisance doing, fr. faire to do, L. facere. Cf.
{Malfeasance}.] (Law)
A trespass; a wrong done; the improper doing of an act which
a person might lawfully do. --Bouvier. Wharton.
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| | Definition: | | Improper performance of an act which a person might lawfully do. |
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| | Related Terms: | | aberrancy, aberration, abuse, abuse of office, atrocity, bad policy, befoulment, breach, conversion, corrupt administration, crime, crime against humanity, criminal tendency, criminality, criminosis, deadly sin, debasement, defalcation, defectiveness, defilement, delinquency, delusion, dereliction, desecration, deviancy, distortion, diversion, embezzlement, enormity, errancy, erroneousness, error, evil, evil courses, evildoing, failure, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, falsity, fault, faultiness, feloniousness, felony, flaw, flawedness, fouling, genocide, guilty act, hamartia, heavy sin, heresy, heterodoxy, illusion, impolicy, impropriety, indiscretion, inexpedience, inexpediency, inexpiable sin, iniquity, injury, injustice, lapse, lawbreaking, maladministration, malefaction, malfeasance, malpractice, malum, malversation, minor wrong, misadministration, misapplication, misappropriation, misconduct, misconstruction, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdirection, misdoing, misemployment, misgovernment, misguidance, mishandling, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mismanagement, misprision, misprision of treason, misrule, misusage, misuse, mortal sin, neglect, negligence, nonfeasance, offense, omission, outrage, peccadillo, peccancy, peculation, perversion, pilfering, pollution, poor stewardship, positive misprision, profanation, prostitution, self-contradiction, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, sinfulness, slip, thou scarlet sin, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, unorthodoxy, untrueness, untruth, untruthfulness, unutterable sin, venial sin, vice, viciousness, violation, wrong, wrong conduct, wrongdoing, wrongness |
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