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Nonperformance

noun
1.
Failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances.  Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, negligence.






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"Nonperformance" Quotes from Famous Books



... town having 20,000 inhabitants or upward. Section 2021 of the Revised Statutes puts it in the power of any two citizens of such city or town to require of the marshal of the district the appointment of these special deputy marshals. Thereupon the duty of the marshal becomes imperative, and its nonperformance would expose him to judicial mandate or punishment or to removal from office by the President, as the circumstances of his conduct might require. The bill now before me neither revokes this popular right of the citizens, nor relieves the marshal of the duty imposed by law, nor ...
— Messages and Papers of Rutherford B. Hayes - A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents • James D. Richardson



Words linked to "Nonperformance" :   criminal negligence, evasion, carelessness, contributory negligence, nonaccomplishment, neglect of duty, escape, nonachievement, neglect, dodging, comparative negligence, dereliction, culpable negligence, negligence, concurrent negligence



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