How To Use Misfeasance In A Sentence
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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.
Undefined
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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.
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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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A councilman may also be removed for violation of general state law, such as misfeasance or malfeasance.
Parkersburg News and Sentinel
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The gist of the tort of misfeasance in public office is the deliberate abuse of power.
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Hence, the wisdom of the common law's stress on the crucial distinction between misfeasance and nonfeasance, between a wrongful aggression against someone's rights, and leaving that person alone.
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Such removal may be effected "for neglect of duty, malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance in office, for any willful violation of Title XXXV of the Revised Code, or for any any other good and sufficient cause.
OpEdNews - Diary: Followup to: I'm a teacher. Would there be consequences from my community if I treat anyone publicly or privately
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Malfeasance, misfeasance, and nonfeasance are ancient legal concepts covering how officials misuse power.
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I think that part of what we call gotcha journalism today -- the idea that the function of a reporter is to catch an official in a lie, in a some kind of minor misfeasance -- is partly the result of Watergate.
CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2001
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Attorney General Eric Holder on Sunday said he had dispatched Justice Department officials to the Gulf Coast to determine whether there had been any "misfeasance" or "malfeasance" related to the leaking oil rig off the Gulf of Mexico.
U.S. Considers 'Malfeasance' in Leak
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I have evidence of perjury and the perversion of the course of justice and misfeasance in public office.
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The tort of misfeasance in public office is currently in the public eye.
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It is a form of holding administrative subjects responsible for their misfeasance to compel administrative subjects to perform legal duties.
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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.
They don't like it, either (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Given the regular news reports of enterprise data lost through laptop theft, third party misfeasance, WEP hacking, loss of backup tapes, disgruntled employees, etc., it’s not like enterprise data is currently held in impregnable Kryptonite fortresses.
Another Half-Dozen Half-Truths of the Cloud
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Responsibilities of investment fiduciaries have been brought to the forefront by recent misfeasance and malfeasance in the investment community.
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Because I knew in beginning this book that I would be reporting on what Mr. Galbraith calls "misfeasance," I knew I owed it to the others named in the book — some who were my friends, and some who weren't — to report on my own misfeasance as well.
Bananas
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They are suing Allen, then the most senior officer in MI6 responsible for counter-terrorism, alleging "complicity in torture" and "misfeasance in public office".
Syria: UN to hear Arab League proposals - live updates
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Mr Justice Sweeney that the action by Malcolm, who alleges "misfeasance" in public office and a breach of his human rights, was not "trivial".
Undefined
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Then it is the transaction that constitutes the misfeasance and the journal entry might be an admission of the transaction.
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The effect of this is that the occupier's liability is governed by the common law, which provides that he will be liable for negligent misfeasance but not for nonfeasance.
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The effect of this is that the occupier's liability is governed by the common law, which provides that he will be liable for negligent misfeasance but not for nonfeasance.
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It might well retard job creation, should it give rise to inflationary expectations or, worse, imply that, having suffered the slings and arrows of popular and political contempt as we went about doing what we did to save the financial system, we have now been compromised and become a pliant accomplice to Congress's and the executive branch's fiscal misfeasance.
Notable & Quotable
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The tort of misfeasance in its modern form may take one of two forms.
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Whatever the motive, federal misfeasance is getting the blame in many media anatomies of the catastrophe.
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These public law remedies are additional to any private law remedies which would be available to him such as damages for misfeasance in public office, assault or negligence.
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There must have been a misfeasance or breach of trust.
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Such attacks normally took one of two forms, either that of prosecutions and fines at law for misfeasance, or the more drastic resort of attainder and forfeiture.
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Questions of nonfeasance and misfeasance were not regarded as relevant to anything.
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Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher notes, "I believe what is restraining our economy is not monetary policy but fiscal misfeasance in Washington.
Lydia Fisher: From "Too Big to Fail" Banks to "Too Big to Default" Nations to What's Next?
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She seems well equipped to root out malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance of these clowns that had to pass the Montica Goodling (?) loyalty test after she graduated, with high honers, from some place called Regent U.
Why Holder and Obama have not fired the Bush Appointed, Rove-Vetted DOJ Attorneys
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Also, when people come in to start a recall and I show them the legal definitions of 'misfeasance' and 'malfeasance,' that usually stops it right there.
Archive 2003-08-01
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I have evidence of perjury and the perversion of the course of justice and misfeasance in public office.
