feasance

feasance
/fee"zeuhns/, n. Law.
the doing or performing of an act, as of a condition or duty.
[1530-40; < AF fesa(u)nce, OF faisance, equiv. to fais- (var. s. of faire L facere to do) + -ance -ANCE]

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