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The omission to perform a required duty or the failure to act when a duty to act existed. Nonfeasance can more loosely be defined as �not doing something which you ought to do.� The term �nonfeasance� commonly appears in the areas of contract and tort law. For example, in contract law, failure to perform the obligations of a contract altogether constitutes �nonfeasance� and could give rise to a suit for breach of contract. In the context of negligence, nonfeasance may be actionable where a landowner failed to warn invitees of concealed and dangerous conditions on their property and an invitee was injured. In contrast,�misfeasance and�malfeasance refer to acts which are improperly performed or wrongful.