Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a failure to act when under an obligation to do so;
a refusal (without sufficient excuse) to do that which it is your legal duty to do;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Non-feasance \Non-fea"sance\, n. [Pref. non- + OF. faisance a
doing, fr. faire to do.] (Law)
An omission or neglect to do something, esp. that which ought
to have been done. Cf. Malfeasance.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
nonfeasance
n 1: a failure to act when under an obligation to do so; a
refusal (without sufficient excuse) to do that which it is
your legal duty to do