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non-perˈformance
[non- 1.]
Failure or neglect to perform or fulfil a condition, promise, etc.; the condition of not being performed.
1509–10Act I Hen. VIII, c. 19 Preamble, For nonperfourmance of the said condicions. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 261 Fearefull To doe a thing, where I the issue doubted, Whereof the execution did cry out Against the non-performance. 1635Jackson Creed viii. vii. 68 His non-performances of what hee often seriously intended. 1727Arbuthnot John Bull iii. xvii, Exasperated at the Non-performance of John Bull's Promise. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. III. xcii. 284 It would be a meritorious action to put the rascal to the proof, and then toss him in a blanket for non-performance. 1790Amer. State Papers (1833) I. 124 Delay is always a kind of breach, since, as long as it lasts, it is the non-performance of stipulations. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) II. 306 The performance or non-performance of the ceremony called swearing, or taking an oath. 1845Polson Eng. Law in Encycl. Metrop. II. 831/1 The breach or nonperformance of lawful conditions.
Hence non-perˈformer, one who is guilty of non-performance; non-perˈforming vbl. n., failure to perform.
1675Woodhead, etc. Paraph. S. Paul 22 With a curse to the non-performers. 1773Salkeld Cases King's Bench III. 374 The Jury found, that the Plaintiff was damnified 10l. by the Defendant's Non-performing his Promise. |