Associations to the word «Nonfeasance»

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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.
John Locke