According to American observers, Soviet officials attributed that failure to the improper performance of the payload, not the Proton itself.

Pothier devised a law limiting recovery in the case of improper performance of a contractual obligation to those damages which are foreseeable.

In the Argentine Congress, two new impeachment complaints against all nine members of the court were filed today, joining 28 accusations of "improper performance" of duty already on file against individual justices.

The 28 pending complaints of "improper performance" of duty include the Menem arms case as well as the botched investigation of a terrorist attack on the Israeli Embassy here in 1992.

An effective process is established that clearly defines expectations for procedure use taking into account the complexity of tasks, the skill and training of plant personnel, the extent of supervisory involvement, and the potential consequences of improper performance.

The concept of improper performance (section 4) is central to the general bribery offences and also indirectly to the offence of failure of commercial organisations to prevent bribery, since an offence under section 7 requires a general bribery offence to have been committed.

Generally, a civil defendant will be liable for misfeasance if the defendant owed a duty of care toward the plaintiff, the defendant breached that duty of care by improperly performing a legal act, and the improper performance resulted in harm to the plaintiff.

In accordance with reference (a) enclosed, the Bureau finds that you conduct in the matter of the irregular relief of Lieutenant Commander Philip F. Queeg USN of command of the U.S.S. CAINE on 18 December 1944 constituted improper performance of duty.