{"id":1542,"date":"2016-12-23T12:22:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T06:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2023-08-08T14:07:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T08:37:10","slug":"malfeasance-misfeasance-and-non-feasance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/malfeasance-misfeasance-and-non-feasance\/","title":{"rendered":"Malfeasance , Misfeasance and Non- feasance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Malfeasance:-<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When an unlawful act is committed , it is called Malfeasance . The unlawful acts of Malfeasance are those which are generally actionable per se and do not require proof of damage or negligence or malice .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for instance trespass is malfeasance and it is actionable per se .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Misfeasance:-<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the act itself is lawful but performed improperly , it is called Misfeasance .A person becomes liable in tort even if he has undertaken to do something gratuitously and performs the work improperly or commits a misfeasance .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Non- feasance:-&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Failure or omission to perform an obligatory act by one is Non- feasance. But in case of Non- feasance , a gratuitous undertaking does not impose liability . Where there is an obligatory duty , and the failure or omission to do such duty causes injury to a person , it gives rise to a cause of action in favour of such person towards whom the duty exists .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malfeasance:- When an unlawful act is committed , it is called Malfeasance . The unlawful acts of Malfeasance are those which are generally actionable per se and do not require proof of damage or negligence or malice . As for instance trespass is malfeasance and it is actionable per se . Misfeasance:- When the act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[86,85],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-torts","tag-ccs-university","tag-ccsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8578,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions\/8578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infipark.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}