Lexicographical Neighbors of Feasance
Literary usage of Feasance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1911)
"§437 LIABILITY FOR NON-feasance public duty, relating strictly to public as
distinguished from municipal duty, no action lies unless given by statute ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Agency: Including Not Only a Discussion of the by Floyd Russell Mechem (1889)
"Same Subject—Distinction between Non-feasance and Misfeasance. Some confusion
has crept into certain cases from a failure to observe clearly the distinction ..."
3. The Law of Agency: Including the Law of Principal and Agent and the Law of by Ernest Wilson Huffcut (1901)
"Liable for misfeasance, but not for non-feasance. ... Meaning of non-feasance.
" Non-feasance is the omission of an act which a person ought to do; ..."
4. Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations: Whether with Or Without by Charles Fisk Beach (1891)
"Distinction between misfeasance and non-feasance. A distinction is drawn between
the liability of a corporation for misfeasance and non-feasance, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Criminal Law as Now Administered in the United States by Emlin McClain (1897)
"Liable for non-feasance.— Where a duty is specially imposed by law, which is such
that it covers acts which a corporation may do, it is now well settled ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Bailments: Including Carriers, Inn-keepers, and Pledge by James Schouler (1880)
"... the parties acquire mutual rights and duties which are enforceable, and for
what is called non- feasance, or the failure of either to fulfil his part, ..."
7. New Commentaries on the Criminal Law Upon a New System of Legal Exposition by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1892)
"MALfeasance AND NON-feasance IN OFFICE. § 971. Introduction. 972-977. Justices of
Peace and the Like. 978, 979. Sheriffs and the Like. 980-982. ..."
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