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Definition of Nonfeasance
1. 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.
Definition of Nonfeasance
1. n. An omission or neglect to do something, esp. that which ought to have been done. Cf. Malfeasance.
Definition of Nonfeasance
1. Noun. (legal) The intentional failure to perform an official duty or legal requirement. ¹
2. Noun. (legal) The lack of liability associated with the failure to act. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nonfeasance
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonfeasance
Literary usage of Nonfeasance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
""Misfeasance" is the performance of an act, which might lawfully be done, in an
improper manner, resulting in injury to another, while "nonfeasance" is the ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall, Herschel Bouton Lazell (1905)
"For nonfeasance. 2. By the weight of authority, for misfeasance, if the offense
does not involve the element of personal violence or the element of malice ..."
3. The Health of Nations: A Review of the Works of Edwin Chadwick by Edwin Chadwick, Benjamin Ward Richardson (1887)
"A loss from nonfeasance arises from neglecting to repair the evils of ... There is
another loss from nonfeasance in not putting the gas supply under a ..."
4. Handbook on the Law of Bailments and Carriers by Armistead Mason Dobie (1914)
"A person is not liable for his nonfeasance in failing to enter upon a bailment,
... nonfeasance In the second case, since there is no bailment, ..."
5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"nonfeasance Is the omission of an act which a person ought to do. Burns v.
Peth- cal, 27 NY Supp. 499, 503, 75 Hun, 437; Illinois Cent R. Co. v. ..."
6. A Treatise on Criminal Law and Procedure by Thomas Welburn Hughes (1919)
"Homicide arising from nonfeasance.—A homicide which arises from a mere ...
To render a person criminally liable for a homicide which arose from nonfeasance, ..."
7. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1917)
"Doctrine that servant is not liable for nonfeasance. Supplementing note in 25
LRA(NS) 350. As is shown in the earlier notes, some courts in passing upon the ..."
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