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Definition :

Estrepement [fr. estropier, Fr., to lame; extirpare, Lat.], any spoil or waste made by tenant for life upon any lands or woods to the prejudice of him in reversion; also making land barren by continual ploughing. The writ of estrepement was abolished by the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1883 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27).