0 a failure to pay money that is owed: --
non-payment of taxes
1 the fact of not paying or being paid a sum of money that is owed: --
The claim that charges are too high may, of course, for some be part of a rationale for non-payment.
To the contrary, non-payment seems to be the ' norm ' in some areas.
In some communities non-payment even worsened after the launching of the campaign.
Instead of watching their livelihood haemorrhage away, royalists sued their old tenants for non-payment of rent.
The authorities then examined how instances of non-payment had increased or decreased, and whether the payments were done in good coins or bad.
A high incidence of non-payment may thus encourage nonpayment even by those who can afford to pay.
Informal reconnections are practised in many townships when water and/or electricity are cut off by the municipality due to massive non-payment.
Yet non-payment of rents and boycott were soon to evolve into agrarian crime and land war.
