Associations to the word «Nonfeasance»
Wiktionary
NONFEASANCE, noun. (legal) The intentional failure to perform an official duty or legal requirement.
NONFEASANCE, noun. (legal) The lack of liability associated with the failure to act.
Dictionary definition
NONFEASANCE, 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.
Wise words
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words
were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only,
and not for things themselves.