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Legal Definition and Related Resources of Omission
Meaning of Omission
The non- performance of a duty required of a person with an awareness on his part that performance is required or needful. Also the failure to do what the law requires.
Omission Alternative Definition
Neglect to perform an act required by law. (Lat.) Laying aside all other businesses. 9 Bast, 347.
Synonyms of Omission
noun
- breach
- carelessness
- default
- default in performance
- delinquency
- dereliction
- disregard
- excluding
- exclusion
- failure
- failure to perform
- inadvertence
- laxity
- laxness
- leaving out
- neglect
- neglect to perform
- negligence
- nonfeasance
- noninclusion
- oversight
- passing over
- praetermissio
- pretermission
- remissness
- slip Associated Concepts: material omission
- negligent omission
- omission of duty
- omission to act
- willful omissionforeign phrases: Omissio eorum quae tacite insunt nihil operatur
- The omission of those things which are tacitly expressed is unimportant
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Omission in Historical Law
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Legal Abbreviations and Acronyms
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Omission in Law Enforcement
Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of omission.
Resources
See Also
- Law Enforcement Officer
- Police
- Law Enforcement Agency
Further Reading
- omission in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
- omission in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
- A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis
Omission in Voting Law
Definition of Omission in the context of the United States election law: Situation in which the name of a potential voter does not appear on the voter list although the person has registered. In general this is the result of a mistake, either on the part of the electoral administration, such as a data entry error, or on the part of the voter, who may have registered in the wrong location, for example.
Omission in Voting Law
Definition of Omission in the context of the United States election law: Situation in which the name of a potential voter does not appear on the voter list although the person has registered. In general this is the result of a mistake, either on the part of the electoral administration, such as a data entry error, or on the part of the voter, who may have registered in the wrong location, for example.
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