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From: huff@bronze.lcs.mit.edu (Robert Huff)
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In-Reply-To: Mark Schuldenfrei's message of Fri, 11 Mar 1994 11:17:39 -0500 (EST) <9403111617.AA05101@math.harvard.edu>
Subject: The recent past and the near future


Hello:
	I'm not a lawyer (either), but I believe the following in
inaccurate:

>   Malfeasance means violation of law, willfully, according to my online
>   dictionary.  It isn't Black's Legal Dictionary, but it is the best I have.

	To my understanding "malfeasance" is when you, with good
intentions, do something badly; "misfeasance" is when you deliberately
fail to follow the/law/procedure/whatever.

					Diego Mundoz