Malfeasance
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
The wrongful or unjust doing of soihe act which the doer has no right to perform or which he has stipulated by contract not to do. It differs from "misfeasance" and "non-feasance," (which titles see.) See 1 Chit. Pr. 9; 1 Chit PI.
134; Dudley v. Flemingsburg, 115 Ky. 5, 72 S. W. 327, 60 In R. A. 575, 103 Am. St. Rep. 253; Co.ite v. Lynes, 33 Conn. 115; Bell v. Josse-lyn, 3 Gray (Mass.) 311, 63 Am. Dec. 741.