Nonfeasance - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: nonfeasanceMalfesance, 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)...
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 ...
malfeasance
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Misfeasance
Misfeasance, a misdeed or trespass; also, the improper performance of some lawful act. As to the distinction between misfeasance and nonfeasance, see McClelland v. Manchester Corporation, (1912) 1 KB 118, and cases there referred to, Guilfoyle v. Port of London Authority, (1932) 1 KB 336; and Coeshill v. Manchester Corporation, (1928) 1 KB 776. As to misfesance proceedings in the course of a winding-up against directors, promoters, managers or others, see Companies Act, 1929, s. 276....
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