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Exilium, spoiling. The author of Fleta distinguishes between vastum, destructio, and exilium; for he tells us that vastum and destructio are almost the same, and are properly applied to houses, gardens, or woods; but exilium is where servants are enfranchised, and afterwards unlawfully turned out of their tenements, Fleta, 1. 1, c. xi.