Omission
O`mis´sion
OMISSION. An omission is the neglect to perform what the law requires.
2. When a public law enjoins on certain officers duties to be performed
by them for the public, and they omit to perform them, they may be indicted:
for example, supervisors of the highways are required to repair the public
roads; the neglect to do so will render them liable to be indicted.
3. When a nuisance arises in consequence of an omission, it cannot be
abated if it be a private nuisance without giving notice, when such notice
can be given. Vide Branches; Commission; Nuisance; Trees.
Sisyphean labor,
abbreviation,
abridgment,
absence,
arrearage,
atrocity,
bad policy,
balk,
ban,
bar,
barring,
beggary,
bevue,
blank,
blockade,
blue-penciling,
bowdlerization,
boycott,
breach,
break,
cancellation,
censoring,
censorship,
chasm,
circumscription,
crime,
crime against humanity,
culpa,
culpable negligence,
deadly sin,
debarment,
debarring,
defalcation,
default,
defect,
defectiveness,
deficiency,
deficit,
deletion,
delinquency,
demarcation,
deprivation,
dereliction,
destitution,
disconformity,
discontinuity,
disregard,
dropping,
drought,
editing,
elimination,
embargo,
endless task,
enormity,
erasure,
error,
evil,
exception,
excision,
excluding,
exclusion,
expurgation,
false move,
false step,
famine,
fault,
felony,
gap,
genocide,
guilty act,
heavy sin,
hiatus,
imperfection,
impolicy,
impoverishment,
impropriety,
inadmissibility,
inadvertence,
inadvertency,
inattention,
incompleteness,
indiscretion,
inexecution,
inexpedience,
inexpediency,
inexpiable sin,
iniquity,
injunction,
injury,
injustice,
inobservance,
interval,
laches,
lack,
lacuna,
laissez-faire,
lapse,
lapsus calami,
lapsus linguae,
laxity,
laxness,
leaving out,
lockout,
loose ends,
loose thread,
looseness,
maladministration,
malefaction,
malfeasance,
malpractice,
malum,
minor wrong,
misadministration,
misconduct,
miscue,
misdeed,
misdemeanor,
misdirection,
misfeasance,
misgovernment,
misguidance,
mishandling,
mismanagement,
misrule,
missing link,
misstep,
mortal sin,
narrowing,
need,
neglectfulness,
negligence,
nonaccomplishment,
nonachievement,
nonadherence,
nonadmission,
noncompliance,
nonconformance,
nonconformity,
nonconsummation,
nondischarging,
nonexecution,
nonfeasance,
nonfulfillment,
noninterference,
nonobservance,
nonperformance,
nonrestriction,
offense,
omitting,
outage,
outrage,
overlook,
overlooking,
peccadillo,
peccancy,
permissiveness,
poor stewardship,
preclusion,
preterition,
procrastination,
prohibition,
rejection,
relegation,
remissness,
repudiation,
restriction,
rough edges,
shortage,
shortcoming,
shortfall,
sin,
sin of commission,
sin of omission,
sinful act,
skip,
skipping,
slackness,
slight,
slip,
slipup,
starvation,
striking,
stumble,
taboo,
tort,
transgression,
trespass,
trip,
ullage,
unfulfillment,
unobservance,
unrigorousness,
unutterable sin,
venial sin,
want,
wantage,
work of Penelope,
wrong,
wrong step,
wrongdoing