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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