4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Misfeasance \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 arising from an overt act; the improper doing of an act which a person might lawfully do. --Bouvier. --Wharton. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: misfeasance n : doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 135 Moby Thesaurus words for "misfeasance": 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 From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]: MISFEASANCE, torts, contracts. The performance of an act which might lawfully be done, in an improper manner, by which another person receives an injury. It differs from malfeasance, (q.v.) or, nonfeasance (q.v.) Vide, generally, 2 Vin. Ab. 35; 2 Kent, Com. 443; Doct. Pl. 62; Story, Bail. Sec. 9. 2. It seems to be settled that there is a distinction between misfeasance and nonfeasance in the case of mandates. In cases of nonfeasance, the mandatary is not generally liable, because his undertaking being gratuitous, there is no consideration to support it; but in cases of misfeasance, the common law gives a remedy for the injury done, and to the extent of that injury. 5 T. R. 143; 4 John. Rep. 84; Story, Bailment, Sec. 165; 2 Ld. Raym. 909, 919, 920; 2 Johns. Cas. 92; Doct. & Stu. 210; 1 Esp. R. 74; 1 Russ. Cr. 140; Bouv. Inst. Index h.t.
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