malfeasance vs misfeasance vs nonfeasance
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noun
- wrongful conduct by a public official
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Several cases of malpractice and malfeasance in the financial world are currently being investigated.
In the REAL WORLD this kind of malfeasance is scienter for a class action.
A councilman may also be removed for violation of general state law, such as misfeasance or malfeasance.
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noun
- doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner
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The army immediately assumed crisis mode and denied any connections between Hasan's religious beliefs and his actions, they summarily dismissed the idea of misfeasance in ignoring warnings of a potential fifth columnist in their midst, and they are now instructing high level officers to sing from the Political correctness hymnbook as General Casey now yammers on about the glories of diversity and that this is the strength of our great republic.
Recovery in tort is dependent on the plaintiff establishing injury and loss resulting from an act of misfeasance or nonfeasance on the part of the defendant, the tortfeasor.
In contrast with the tort of misfeasance in public office, bad faith is not an ingredient of the tort; it is not a defence for the defendant to say that he acted in good faith.
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noun
- 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
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This law puts them in a no-win situation: They will be forced to offend and anger someone who is perhaps a citizen or here legally when they ask to see his papers or be accused of nonfeasance because they do not.
That came five months later, after he had either resigned because of lack of support from the Justice Department or had been fired for what was characterized as “nonfeasance” the evidence supported the former interpretation.
And the article in The Nation provides valuable new evidence to go along with all of the other evidence of malfeasance, misfeasance, and nonfeasance that we've seen up until now.
