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Definition of Misfeasances
1. misfeasance [n] - See also: misfeasance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misfeasances
Literary usage of Misfeasances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of American Jurisprudence by William Callyhan Robinson (1900)
"Wrongs are divisible, according to the nature of the acts or forbearances of
which they consist, into Malfeasances, misfeasances, ..."
2. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1901)
"In a majority of the states it is held that causes of action against sheriffs
and constables, based on the defaults or misfeasances of their deputies, ..."
3. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"... and the defaults and misfeasances in office of such deputy or deputies in the
mean time, as well as before, shall be adjudged a breach of the condition ..."
4. Montgomery's Manual of Federal Procedure by Charles Carroll Montgomery (1914)
"... and for the defaults or misfeasances in office of any such deputy, whether in
the lifetime of the clerk or after his death, the clerk and his estate and ..."
5. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1903)
"1230, 1290, the court said: "The government itself is not responsible for the
misfeasances, or wrongs, or negligences, or omissions of duty of the ..."
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