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| non·fea·sance [ non fz'nss ] |
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failure to meet legal obligations: in law, the omission of some act that is expected to have been performed. See also malfeasance (sense 1) misfeasance
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| [Early 17th century. < obsolete feasance "doing" < Anglo-Norman fesa(u)nce, French faisance< fais-, present stem of faire "to do" < Latin facere] |
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