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vandal
vandal [Vandal, member of a Germanic tribe who sacked Rome in A.D. 455] : a person who willfully destroys, damages, or defaces property belonging to another or to the public
rule in Shelley's case
a former common-law rule that converted a life estate of an ancestor into an estate in fee and destroyed the remainder to the heirs that was created in the same instrument as that creating the life estate
malicious mischief
malicious mischief : the act or offense of intentionally damaging or destroying another's property (as from feelings of ill will) compare vandalism
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lost
costs] 2 : unintentionally gone out of or missing from one's possession or control 3 : ruined or destroyed physically ;also : in an unknown physical condition or location [a ship]
loss
the cost of something (as goods or services) exceeds the selling price compare profit c : something unintentionally destroyed or placed beyond recovery d : the amount of an insured's financial detriment due to the occurrence of
jus disponendi
jus disponendi [Latin, right of disposing] : a right of disposal of property [the stockholder's jus disponendi was destroyed]
destructibility of contingent remainders
of estates that a contingent remainder that fails to vest upon the termination of the preceding estate is destroyed see also executory interest at interest
casualty
of property…arising from fire, storm, shipwreck, or other "Internal Revenue Code"] 2 : something lost, stolen, damaged, or destroyed see also casualty gain at gain casualty loss at loss
best evidence rule
or pictured in a writing, recording, or photograph the original must be provided unless the original is lost, destroyed, or otherwise unobtainable called also original writing rule
Earthquake
to subterranean causes often accompanied by a rumbling noise The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere destroying cities and many thousand lives called also earthdin earthquave and earthshock
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