Neglect
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Means to omit, as to neglect business or payment or duty or work, and is generally used in this sense. It does not generally imply carelessness or imprudence, but simply an omission to do or perform some work, duty, or act.
Rosenplaenter v. Roessle, 54 N. Y. 262.
As used in respect to the payment of money, refusal is the failure to pay money when demanded; neglect is the failure to pay money which the party is bound to pay without demand. Kimball o.
Rowland, 6 Gray, 224.
The neglect of an attorney to pay over money collected for his client is a "neglect" in a "professional employment," within the exception of the act of July 12, 1842, abolishing imprisonment, &c.
Wills V. Kane, 2 Grant Cas. 60.