| Malfeasance, misfeasance, and nonfeasance are ancient legal concepts covering how officials misuse power. |
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| Questions of nonfeasance and misfeasance were not regarded as relevant to anything. |
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| If Applebaum were to add one more chapter to this admirable and clearheaded book, it might be on bribery, nonfeasance, and the black market. |
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| But what have New Yorkers been if not blindsided by incessant malfeasance and nonfeasance in the state capital? |
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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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| At first sight, to say that the defendant's nonfeasance did not cause the plaintiff's loss seems to provide a sort of objective criterion for not imposing liability. |
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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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| Merely refusing to consent to a diagnostic test and to treatment that may or may not ultimately benefit the fetus, presents only an indirect risk to the fetus, and is one that arises from nonfeasance, not malfeasance. |
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| When the SAT ignored Hao's request, he sued the SAT for nonfeasance. |
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| If more than two polling-places are shown by evidence of probable cause to be subject to error or nonfeasance, the balloting of the entire Federal Electoral District shall be audited. |
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| As with earlier charges successfully fended off by Baran, the penalty for nonfeasance is forced resignation from office. |
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| The court concluded the existence of nonfeasance, yet held that McDonald's was not liable for the injuries. |
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