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Devastation

The act of devastating or the state of being devastated a laying waste...


Devast

To devastate...


devastating

highly critical making light of as a devastating portrait of human folly...


Devastator

One who or that which devastates...


Devastavit

Devastavit (he has wasted), a devastation or waste of the property of the deceased person by an executor or administrator by extravagance or misapplication of the assets, for which he is liable. 'A devastavit or waste in an executor or administrator is when he doth misemploy the estate of the deceased, and misdemean himself in the managing thereof, against the trust reposed in him': Shep. Touch. P. 485. An action founded on a devastavit will be barred after six years by the Statute of Limitations, Lacons v. Wormall, (1907) 2 KB 350; Re Blow, (1914) 1 Ch 233, and s. 8(3) of the Trustee Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 59).A writ lying against an executor for devastation: the offence of devastation.Devastavit, a personal representative in accepting the office accepts the duties of the office, and becomes a trustee in the sense that he is personally liable in equity for all breaches of the ordinary trusts which in courts of equity are considered to arise from his office. The violation of his d...


handicap

handicap : a physical disability (as a bodily impairment or a devastating disease) ...


Bubonic plague

a severe and often fatal disease caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis formerly Pasteurella pestis transmitted to man by the bite of fleas themselves usually infected by biting infected rodents It is characterized by the formation of buboes most notably on the groin and armpits and accompanied by weakness and high fever The disease was known as the black death and was responsible for several devastating plagues throughout the middle ages When lungs became infected the disease was called the pneumonic plague It is still found occasionally in poor areas of undeveloped countries but is rare in developed countries...


Destruction

The act of destroying a tearing down a bringing to naught subversion demolition ruin slaying devastation...


Destructive

Causing destruction tending to bring about ruin death or devastation ruinous fatal productive of serious evil mischievous pernicious often with of or to as intemperance is destructive of health evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth...


Devastate

To lay waste to ravage to desolate...


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