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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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