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misfeasance Law.|mɪsˈfiːzəns|
Also 7 -feisance, 7–8 -fesance, 8 -fesans, 9 -feazance.
[a. OF. mesfaisance, f. mesfaisant, pres. pple. of mesfaire, méfaire to misdo: see mis-2 and feasance.]
A transgression, trespass; spec. the wrongful exercise of lawful authority or improper performance of a lawful act.
1596Bacon Max. & Uses Com. Law i. (1636) 32 He is subject to an action upon the case for his misfeisance. 1675W. Sheppard (title) Actions upon the Case for Deeds, viz. Contracts, Assumpsits [etc.]..and for other Male-Feasance and Mis-feasance. 1689Trial Pritchard v. Papillon 9 That were a Misfesance, or a Male-execution of their Office. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 208 Any misfeasance, or act of one man whereby another is injuriously treated or damnified, is a transgression, or trespass in it's largest sense. 1781W. Jones Law Bailments 54 A distinction seems very early to have been made in our law between the nonfesance, and the misfesance of a conductor operis. 1863Kinglake Crimea II. 13 The custom of awarding wild, violent praise to the common performance of duty, and even now and then to actual misfeasance. 1875Digby Real Prop. (1876) vi. 303 note, All cases of damage caused by misfeazance (commission of wrongful acts).
transf.1840New Monthly Mag. LIX. 242 The long-acre copse..which had so often sheltered the misfeasance both of my gun and lips. 1882Hughes Mem. D. Macmillan 6 He had..discovered some small misfeasance in the shop and had accused his apprentice of it. |