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Misfeasance
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MisfeasanceTorts, contracts. The performance of an act which might lawfully be done, in an improper manner, by which another person receives an injury. It differs from malfeasance, or, nonfeasance.
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Performance
The act of doing something; the thing done is also called a performance.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Injury
Any legal harm, wrong or damage done to a person's body, property, rights or reputation, and that the law recognizes as deserving of redress.
Malfeasance
Contracts, torts. The unjust performance of some act which the party had no right, or which he had contracted not to do. It differs from mis- feasance and nonfeasance.
Nonfeasance
Not doing something that a person should be doing.
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Miscontinuance
Practice. By this term is understood a continuance of a suit by undue process. Its effect is the same as a discontinuance.
Misdirection
Practice. An error made by a judge in charging the jury in a special case. Such misdirection is either in relation to matters of law or matters of fact.
Mise
English law. In a writ of right which is intended to be tried by the grand assize, the general issue is called the mise. Lawes, Civ. Pl. 111; 7 Cowen, 51. This word also signifies expenses, and it is so commonly used in the entries of judgments in personal actions; as when the plaintiff recovers, the judgment is quod recuperet damna sua for such value, and pro mises et custagiis for costs and charges for so much, &c.
Miserabile depositum
Civil law. The name of an involuntary deposit, made under pressing necessity; as, for instance, shipwreck, fire, or other inevitable calamity.
Misericordia
Mercy. An arbitrary or discretionary amercement.
Misfeasance
Misjoinder
Pleading. Misjoinder of causes of action, or counts, consists in joining, in different counts in one declaration, several demands, which the law does not permit to be joined, to enforce several distinct, substantive rights of recovery; as, where a declaration joins a count in trespass with another in case, for distinct wrongs or a count in tort, with another in contract.
Mis-joinder
When a person has been named as a party to a law suit when that person should not have been added. When this is asserted, a court will usually accommodate a request to amend the court documents to strike, or substitute for, the name of the mis-joined party. Compare with non-joinder.
Misnomer
The act of using a wrong name. Misnomers, may be considered with regard to contracts, to devises and bequests, and to suits or actions.
Mispleading
Pleading incorrectly, or omitting anything in pleading which is essential to the support or defence of an action, is so called.
Misprison
Criminal law. 1) In its larger sense, this word is used to signify every considerable misdemeanor, which has not a certain name given to it in the law; and it is said that a misprision is contained in every treason or felony whatever. 2) In its narrower sense it is the concealment of a crime. 3) Misprison of felony, is the like concealment of felony, without giving any degree of maintenance to the felon; Act of Congress of April 30, 1790.
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Performance
The act of doing something; the thing done is also called a performance.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
Injury
Any legal harm, wrong or damage done to a person's body, property, rights or reputation, and that the law recognizes as deserving of redress.
Malfeasance
Contracts, torts. The unjust performance of some act which the party had no right, or which he had contracted not to do. It differs from mis- feasance and nonfeasance.
Nonfeasance
Not doing something that a person should be doing.
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Miscontinuance
Practice. By this term is understood a continuance of a suit by undue process. Its effect is the same as a discontinuance.
Misdirection
Practice. An error made by a judge in charging the jury in a special case. Such misdirection is either in relation to matters of law or matters of fact.
Mise
English law. In a writ of right which is intended to be tried by the grand assize, the general issue is called the mise. Lawes, Civ. Pl. 111; 7 Cowen, 51. This word also signifies expenses, and it is so commonly used in the entries of judgments in personal actions; as when the plaintiff recovers, the judgment is quod recuperet damna sua for such value, and pro mises et custagiis for costs and charges for so much, &c.
Miserabile depositum
Civil law. The name of an involuntary deposit, made under pressing necessity; as, for instance, shipwreck, fire, or other inevitable calamity.
Misericordia
Mercy. An arbitrary or discretionary amercement.
Misfeasance
Misjoinder
Pleading. Misjoinder of causes of action, or counts, consists in joining, in different counts in one declaration, several demands, which the law does not permit to be joined, to enforce several distinct, substantive rights of recovery; as, where a declaration joins a count in trespass with another in case, for distinct wrongs or a count in tort, with another in contract.
Mis-joinder
When a person has been named as a party to a law suit when that person should not have been added. When this is asserted, a court will usually accommodate a request to amend the court documents to strike, or substitute for, the name of the mis-joined party. Compare with non-joinder.
Misnomer
The act of using a wrong name. Misnomers, may be considered with regard to contracts, to devises and bequests, and to suits or actions.
Mispleading
Pleading incorrectly, or omitting anything in pleading which is essential to the support or defence of an action, is so called.
Misprison
Criminal law. 1) In its larger sense, this word is used to signify every considerable misdemeanor, which has not a certain name given to it in the law; and it is said that a misprision is contained in every treason or felony whatever. 2) In its narrower sense it is the concealment of a crime. 3) Misprison of felony, is the like concealment of felony, without giving any degree of maintenance to the felon; Act of Congress of April 30, 1790.
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