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Malfeasance

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

The unjust performance of some act which the party had no right, or which he had contracted not, to do.

33 Com. 115.

It differs from misfeasance and nonfeasance (q. v.) See 1 Chit. Prac. 9; 1 Chit. PI.

134.