Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Misfeasance

Misfeasance , noun

[Old French pref. mes- wrong (Latin minus less) + faisance doing, from faire to do, Latin facere. Compare Malfeasance.]

(Law) A trespass; a wrong arising from an overt act; the improper doing of an act which a person might lawfully do. — Bouvier