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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF

... a person who does a misfeasance.  2, record 1, English, - misfeasor

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS

auteur d'exécution irrégulière; auteure d'exécution irrégulière : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, record 1, French, - auteur%20d%27ex%C3%A9cution%20irr%C3%A9guli%C3%A8re

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 2,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Negligence is commonly defined to include both acts and omissions involving an unreasonable risk of harm... In some respects, however, it is still important to advert to the distinction, deeply rooted in the common law, between misfeasance and nonfeasance, between active misconduct working positive steps to benefit others or to protect them from some impending harm.  1, record 2, English, - active%20misconduct

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 2 CONT

The early common law furnished redress only for injury wrought directly by affirmative misconduct ... Inaction was too remote a focus for imposing legal responsibility.  1, record 2, English, - active%20misconduct

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

Record 2,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 3,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Although much progress has since been made in eroding the distinction between misfeasance and nonfeasance, it still remains true today that an obligation to take affirmative action is imposed only in exceptional cases where the parties stand in some specific relation which commits one of them to a duty of taking positive steps for the protection of the other.  2, record 3, English, - positive%20action

Record 3,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 OBS

action positive : terme emprunté au droit civil français.  2, record 3, French, - action%20positive

Record 3,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 4,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 CONT

"There is no distinction more deeply rooted in the common law than that between misfeasance and nonfeasance, between active misconduct working positive injury to others and passive inaction... "(...) This distinction, admittedly a difficult one to draw in practice, is supported by some and attacked by others. In any event, courts do apply different concepts to cases of inaction than they do to cases of positive action.  1, record 4, English, - inaction

Record 4,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 CONT

(...) "aucune distinction n'est plus profondément enracinée dans la common law que celle entre l'action fautive ("misfeasance") et l'inaction ("nonfeasance"), c'est-à-dire entre d'une part, l'acte fautif causant un préjudice à autrui et, d'autre part, le défaut d'agir..." (...) La distinction en cause, dont nul ne conteste qu'elle est difficile à appliquer en pratique, compte des partisans ainsi que des adversaires. Quoi qu'il en soit, les tribunaux utilisent des notions différentes selon qu'il s'agit d'un défaut d'agir ou d'un acte positif.  1, record 4, French, - d%C3%A9faut%20d%27agir

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Fiche terminologique en droit de la responsabilité délictuelle fournie par le Centre de traduction et de documentation juridique de l'Université d'Ottawa.  2, record 4, French, - d%C3%A9faut%20d%27agir

Record 4,  Textual support,  Spanish