Malfeasance - Law Dictionary Search Results
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malfeasance [mal- bad + obsolete English feasance doing, execution, from Old French faisance, from fais-, stem of faire to make, do, from Latin facere] : the commission (as by a public official) of a wrongful or unlawful act involving or affecting the performance of one's duties compare misfeasance, nonfeasance ...
malfeasant
One guilty of malfeasance...
Malfeasance
Malfeasance, the commission of some evil or unlawful act....
misfeasance
misfeasance [Anglo-French misfesance, from Middle French mesfaire to do wrong, from mes- wrongly + faire to make, do, from Latin facere] : the performance of a lawful action in an illegal or improper manner ;specif : the performance of an official duty in an improper or unlawful manner or with an improper or corrupt motive compare malfeasance, nonfeasance ...
nonfeasance
nonfeasance [non- + obsolete English feasance doing, execution, from Anglo-French fesance, from Old French faisance act, from fais-, stem of faire to do, from Latin facere] : the failure or omission to do something that should be done or esp. something that one is under a duty or obligation to do compare malfeasance, misfeasance ...
Malefeasance
See Malfeasance...
Malfeasance
The doing of an act which a person ought not to do evil conduct an illegal deed...
Non feasance
An omission or neglect to do something esp that which ought to have been done Cf Malfeasance...
Deprivation
Deprivation, taking away from a clergy-man his patronage, vicarage, or other spiritual promotion or dignity, either, first, by sentence declaratory in the proper Court for fit and sufficient causes; such as conviction of infamous crime; for heresy, gross immorality, and the like, or for farming or trading contrary to law, after two former convictions for the same offence; or, secondly, in pursuance of divers penal statutes, which declare the benefice void, for some nonfeasance or neglect, or else some malfeasance or crime, as for simony; for neglecting to read the liturgy and articles in the church, and to declare assent to the same within two months after induction; or for using any other form of prayer than the liturgy of the Church of England; or for continued neglect, after order of the bishop, followed by sequestration, to reside on the benefice; and see as to deprivation for immorality, etc., the (English) Clergy Discipline Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 32), s. 6(1)(b), and Oxford ...
Malfesance, misfeasance, nonfeasance
Malfesance, misfeasance, nonfeasance, the words 'malfeasance', 'misfeasance' and 'nonfeasance' cover a wide range of cases. Malfesance would apply to a case where an act prohibited in law is done by a person. Nonfeasance would apply to a case where a person omits to do some act prescribed by law, and misfeasance would apply to a case where a lawful act is done in an improper manner, Khairul Bashar v. Thomas Lal, AIR 1957 All 553 (556). (Limitation Act, 1908, Art. 36)...
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