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(A) The erroneous performance of a legal action, most commonly used to refer to a professional person or public official commites an error or improper action that is not illegal. For example, a lawyer who commits legal malpractice by negligently filing papers after the due date. (B) torts, contracts. The performance of an act which might lawfully be done, in an improper manner, … [Read more...] about MISFEASANCE

This word, which is but little used, signifies ignorant or not knowing. … [Read more...] about MISCOGNLSANT

See MISFEASANCE. … [Read more...] about MISFEAZANCE

Any unlawful conduct on the part of a person concerned in the administration of justice which is prejudicial to the rights of parties or to the right determination of the cause; as "misconduct of Jurors," "misconduct of an arbitrator." The term is also used to express a dereliction from duty, injurious to another, on the part of one employed in a professional capacity, as an … [Read more...] about MISCONDUCT

An adverse event, calamity, or evil fortune, arising by accident, (or without the will or concurrence of him who suffers from it,) and not to be foreseen or guarded against by care or prudence. See 20 Q. B. Div. 816. In its application to the law of homicide, this term always involves the further idea that the person causing the death is not at the time engaged in any unlawful … [Read more...] about MISFORTUNE