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Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
injurious exercise of lawful authority
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misfeasance — mis·fea·sance /mis fēz əns/ n [Anglo French misfesance, from Middle French mesfaire to do wrong, from mes wrongly + faire to make, do, from Latin facere]: the performance of a lawful action in an illegal or improper manner; specif: the… … Law dictionary
misfeasance — /mis fee zeuhns/, n. Law. 1. a wrong, actual or alleged, arising from or consisting of affirmative action. 2. the wrongful performance of a normally lawful act; the wrongful and injurious exercise of lawful authority. Cf. malfeasance, nonfeasance … Universalium
misfeasance — /mɪsˈfizəns/ (say mis feezuhns) noun Law 1. wrong, actual or alleged, arising from or consisting of affirmative action. 2. the wrongful performance of a normally lawful act; the wrongful and injurious exercise of lawful authority. Compare… …
misfeasance — The improper doing of an act which a person might lawfully do. Greenberg v Whitcomb Lumber Co. 90 Wis 225, 63 NW 93. The unlawful and injurious exercise of lawful authority, or the doing of a lawful act in an unlawful manner. Alias v Rumson, 115… … Ballentine's law dictionary
mis|fea|sance — «mihs FEE zuhns», noun. 1. the wrongful performance of a lawful act; wrongful and injurious exercise of lawful authority. SYNONYM(S): malfeasance. 2. any wrong done; trespass: »General denunciation, embellished with assorted charges of… … Useful english dictionary
misfeasance — mis•fea•sance [[t]mɪsˈfi zəns[/t]] n. law the wrongful and injurious exercise of lawful authority Compare malfeasance Etymology: 1590–1600; < AF mesfesance. See mis I, feasance mis•fea′sor, n … From formal English to slang
wrongful — Injurious, heedless, unjust, reckless, unfair; it implies the infringement of some right, and may result from disobedience to lawful authority. Buhler v. Marrujo, 86 N.M. 399, 524 P.2d 1015, 1019. See also tort @ wrongful abuse of process See… … Black's law dictionary
Regulatory taking — refers to a situation in which a government regulates a property to such a degree that the regulation effectively amounts to an exercise of the government s eminent domain power without actually divesting the property s owner of title to the… … Wikipedia
Excommunication — • Exclusion from the communion, the principal and severest censure, is a medicinal, spiritual penalty that deprives the guilty Christian of all participation in the common blessings of ecclesiastical society Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight.… … Catholic encyclopedia
pope — The Pope † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Pope (Ecclesiastical Latin papa from Greek papas, a variant of pappas father, in classical Latin pappas Juvenal, Satires 6:633). The title pope, once used with far greater latitude (see below … Catholic encyclopedia
