misuser

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misuser - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Misuser \Mis*us"er\, n.
     1. One who misuses. "Wretched misusers of language."
        --Coleridge.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Law) Unlawful use of a right; use in excess of, or
        varying from, one's right. --Bouvier.
        [1913 Webster]

misuser - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  MISUSER. An unlawful use of a right. 
       2. In cases of public officers and corporations, a misuser is 
  sufficient to cause the right to be forfeited. 2 Bl. Com. 153; 5 Pick. R. 
  163.