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Waste [fr. vastum, Lat.], any spoil or destruction in houses, gardens, trees, etc., by a tenant; as to what acts amount to waste, see Co. Litt. 53 a. It is either (1) legal, sub-divided into (a) voluntary or commissive, as where the tenant pulls down a house or a part thereof, or ploughs up ancient meadow, and (b) permissive or omissive, as where a tenant suffers a house to fall out of repair; or (2) equitable, which comprehends acts not deemed waste at Common Law. Both for voluntary and permissive waste an action lies against a tenant, whether for life or years, by virtue of the statute of Gloucester, 6 Edw. 1, c. 5. A tenant from year to year is liable for voluntary waste only. An injunction will be granted to restrain voluntary waste, as by ploughing up ancient meadow. See Woodfall, L. & T., and Aggs on Agricultural Holdings. A mortgagor in possession will be restrained from cutting down timber, for as the whole estate is the security for the money advanced, the mortgagor ought not ...
Waste lands
Waste lands, the expression 'waste lands' has a well-defined legal connotation. It means lands which are desolate, abandoned, and not fit ordinarily for use for building purposes. In Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd Edn., Vol. 2, p. 2510, the meaning of the word 'waste' is given as: 1. Waste or desert land, uninhabited or sparsely inhabited and uncultivated country; a wild and desolate region; 2. A piece of land not cultivated or used for any purpose, and producing little or no herbage or wood. In legal use, a piece of such land not in any man's occupation but lying common. 3. A devastated region. In the sequence in which the expression 'waste lands' appears in the two relevant sections, it cannot but have its ordinary etymological meaning as given in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary i.e., land lying desolate or useless, without trees or grass or vegetation, not capable of any use. In Rajanand Brahma Shah v. State of Uttar Pradesh, ((1967) 1 SCR 373: AIR 1967 SC 1081: (1967) 2 SCJ 8...
waste
waste 1 : destruction of or damage to property that is caused by the act or omission of one (as a lessee, mortgagor, or life tenant) having a lesser estate and is usually to the injury of another (as an heir, mortgagee, or remainderman) with an interest in the same property [an action for ] ame·lio·rat·ing waste [ə-mēl-yə-rā-ti-] : waste that leads to improvement of property (as by clearing the way for rebuilding something) called also ameliorative waste permissive waste : waste caused by the failure of a tenant to take ordinary or proper care of the property voluntary waste : waste caused by the intentional commission of a destructive act by a tenant 2 : a reduction of the value of assets (as in a trust) caused by a failure to exercise proper care or sound judgment in managing them ;esp : a transfer of corporate assets (as through excessive executive compensation or a merger) for no legitimate business purpose or for less than what a person ...
ameliorative waste
ameliorative waste : ameliorating waste at waste ...
Ameliorating waste
Ameliorating waste, acts which though technically amounting to what the law calls 'waste,' yet, so far from injuring the inheritance, improve it, see Doherty v. Allman, (1878) 3 App Cas 709; Meux v. Cobley, 1892 (2) Ch 253; and see Settled Land Act, 1925, ss. 88 & 89, as to improvements involving impeachment for waste....
Double waste
Double waste. When a tenant, bound to repair, suffers a house to be wasted, and then unlawfully fells timber to repair it, he is said to commit double waste....
Impeachment of waste
Impeachment of waste. SEE ABSQUE IMPETI-TIONE VASTI; WASTE and SETTLED LAND.Means an action for waste against the tenant of the harmed property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 756....
Voluntary waste
Voluntary waste, that which is the result of the voluntary act of the tenant of property, as where he pulls down a wall or cuts timber; opposed to permissive waste. See WASTE....
Year, day and waste
Year, day and waste [annus, dies et vastum, Lat.], a part of the royal prerogative, whereby the Crown had for a year and a day the profits of land and tenements of those attainted of petit treason or felony, whosoever was lord of the manor whereto the lands or tenements belonged; and the right to cause waste to be made on the tenements by destroying the houses, ploughing up the meadows and pastures, rooting up the woods, etc. (unless the lord of the fee agreed for the redemption of such waste), afterwards restoring them to the lord of the fee. Staund. Pr'rog. 44. This prerogative was abolished by 54 Geo. 3, c. 145....
ameliorating waste
ameliorating waste see waste ...
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