Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Feasance
n. The doing or execution of an act, condition, or obligation. - feasorn. Cf. MALFEASANCE; MISFEASANCE; NONFEASANCE.
Malfeasance
n. A wrongful or unlawful act; esp., wrongdoing or misconduct by a public official; MISFEASANCE IN PUBLIC OFFICE. - Malfeasant(mal-fee-zant) adj. -malfeasor (mal-fee-zar), n. Cf. MISFEASANCE; NONFEASANCE.
Nonfeasance
n. The failure to act when a duty to act existed. - nonfeasant, adj. - nonfeasor, n. Cf MALFEASANCE; MISFEASANCE; FEASANCE. "Hence there arose very early a difference, still deeply rooted in the law of negligence, between 'misfeasance' and 'nonfeasance' - that is to say, between active misconduct working positive injury to others and passive inaction or a failure to take steps to protect them from harm." W. Page Keeton et al., The Law of Torts ยง 56, at 374 (5th ed. 1984).
common-defeasance bond
See penal bond under BOND (2).
common-defeasance bond.
See penal bond.
defeasance
n. 1. An annulment or abrogation; VOIDANCE. 2. The fact or an instance of bringing an estate or status to an end, esp. by conditional limitation. 3. A condition upon the fulfillment of which a deed or other instrument is defeated or made void; a contractual provision containing such a condition. - Also termed defeasance clause. 4. Hist. A collateral deed made simultaneously with a conveyance and containing a condition by which the main deed might be defeated or made void. - Also spelled defeazance. - defease, ub "A defeazance is a collateral deed, made at the same time with a feoffment or other conveyance, containing certain conditions, upon the performance of which the estate then created may be defeated or totally undone." 2 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 327 (1766).
defeasance clause
A mortgage provision stating that the conveyance to the mortgagee will be ineffective if the mortgagor pays the debt on time.
misfeasance
, n. 1. A lawful act performed in a wrongful manner. 2. More broadly, a transgression or trespass; MALFEASANCE. - misfeasant, adj. - misfeasor, n. CE NONFEASANCE.
misfeasance in public office
The tort of excessive or malicious or negligent exercise of statutory powers by a public officer. - Also termed malfeasance.