Malfeasance
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The wrongful or unjust doing of some act which the doer has no right to perform, or which he has stipulated by contiact not todo. It differs from “misfeasance” and “non-feasance,” (which titles see.) See 1 Chit. Pr. 9; 1 Chit. Pl. 134,