MALFEASANCE

The wrongful or unjust doing of some act which the doer has no right to perform, or which he has stipulated by contract not to do. It differs from "misfeasance" and "non-feasance,'' (which titles see.) See 1 Chit. Pr. 9; 1 Chit. Pl. 134; Dudley v. Flemi_ngsburg, 115 Ky. 5, 72 S. W. 327, 60 L. R. A. 575, 103 Am. St. Rep. 253; Coite v. Lynes; 33 Conn. 115; Bell v. Jo elyn, 3 Gray (Ma .) 311, 63 Am. Dec. 741. [s. 756]