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Misfeasance   Listen
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Misfeasance  n.  (Law) A trespass; a wrong arising from an overt act; the improper doing of an act which a person might lawfully do.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Misfeasance" Quotes from Famous Books



... again, if the Government, at the dictation of Mr. Dillon, embarked on a new policy of creating tenancies in grass land and selling them to new men, they are debarred from increasing the estimate to cover their own misfeasance. In tendering the speculative estimate of 1903, it was clearly laid down that the amount of one advance was only to be increased in rare cases, and the sub-division of permanent pasture was denounced as ...
— Against Home Rule (1912) - The Case for the Union • Various



Words linked to "Misfeasance" :   wrongful conduct, misconduct, wrongdoing, actus reus



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