Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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 § 56, at 374 (5th ed. 1984).