Malfeasance
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The unjust performance of some act which the party bad no right, or which he had contracted not, to do. It differs from misfeasance and nonfeasance, which titles see.
See 1 Chitty, Pr. 9; 1 Chltty, PI. 134.