nonfeasance
adj.
omission of an obligatory duty, failure to execute a required task (Law)
Malfeasance
The expressions misfeasance and nonfeasance, and occasionally malfeasance, are used in
English law with reference to the discharge of public obligations existing by
common law, custom or statute.Misfeasance is determined in relation to
privity of contract. When a contract creates a duty that does not exist at common law, the parties can do one of three things: (1) perform the duty fully; (2) perform the duty inadequately or poorly; or (3) fail to perform the duty at all. When a party fails to perform at all, it is nonfeasance. When a party performs the duty inadequately or poorly, it is misfeasance. Malfeasance is used to denote outright
sabotage which causes intentional damage.
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nonfeasance
Noun
1. a failure to act when under an obligation to do so; a refusal (without sufficient excuse) to do that which it is your legal duty to do
(hypernym) dereliction
Nonfeasance
Not doing something that a person should be doing. Compare with malfeasance and misfeasance. - (
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nonfeasance
Synonyms and related words:
Sisyphean labor, atrocity, bad policy, breach, crime, crime against humanity, culpa, culpable negligence, deadly sin, default, delinquency, dereliction, disconformity, disregard, endless task, enormity, error, evil, failure, fault, felony, genocide, guilty act, heavy sin, impolicy, impropriety, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, indiscretion, inexecution, inexpedience, inexpediency, inexpiable sin, iniquity, injury, injustice, inobservance, laches, laissez-faire, lapse, laxity, laxness, loose ends, looseness, maladministration, malefaction, malfeasance, malpractice, malum, minor wrong, misadministration, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdirection, misfeasance, misgovernment, misguidance, mishandling, mismanagement, misrule, mortal sin, neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, nonaccomplishment, nonachievement, nonadherence, noncompliance, nonconformance, nonconformity, nonconsummation, nondischarging, nonexecution, nonfulfillment, noninterference, nonobservance, nonperformance, nonrestriction, offense, omission, outrage, overlooking, oversight, peccadillo, peccancy, permissiveness, poor stewardship, procrastination, remissness, rough edges, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slackness, slight, slip, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, unfulfillment, unobservance, unrigorousness, unutterable sin, venial sin, work of Penelope, wrong, wrongdoing
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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