Hypertext Webster Gateway: "malefeasance"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Malefeasance \Male*fea"sance\, n.
See {Malfeasance}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Malfeasance \Mal*fea"sance\, n. [F. malfaisance, fr. malfaisant
injurious, doing ill; mal ill, evil + faisant doing, p. pr.
of faire to do. See {Malice}, {Feasible}, and cf.
{Maleficence}.] (Law)
The doing of an act which a person ought not to do; evil
conduct; an illegal deed. [Written also {malefeasance}.]
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