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Excerpt from The Waverley Pictorial Dictionary, Vol. 5: Male-Polder
This is one of the many legal terms which have come into the language from the old norman-french. The Norman kings of England exercised a form of control over their officers of state. Any judge or official who was found to be taking bribes, or one who withheld justice from the common people, was severely punished for his malfeasance.
F. Malfaisance, from mal faisant doing ill, from mal ill, faisant doing, pres. P. Of fame to do (max L. -anlia, forming nouns of quality or action). Syn.2 Criminality, malpractice, transgression.number of experiments made by chemists in their efforts to understand the chemical changes that take place in fruit during the process of ripening.
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This is one of the many legal terms which have come into the language from the old norman-french. The Norman kings of England exercised a form of control over their officers of state. Any judge or official who was found to be taking bribes, or one who withheld justice from the common people, was severely punished for his malfeasance.
F. Malfaisance, from mal faisant doing ill, from mal ill, faisant doing, pres. P. Of fame to do (max L. -anlia, forming nouns of quality or action). Syn.2 Criminality, malpractice, transgression.number of experiments made by chemists in their efforts to understand the chemical changes that take place in fruit during the process of ripening.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Author(s) - Harold Wheeler
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