OMIS'SION, n. [L. omissio, from omitto, omissus.] 1. Neglect or failure to do something which a person had power to do, or which duty required to be done. Omission may be innocent or criminal; innocent, when no duty demands performance, but criminal when duty is neglected.The most natural division of all offenses, is into those of omission and those of commission.2. A leaving out; neglect or failure; to insert or mention; as the omission of a word or clause.
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