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Dawdler

One who wastes time in trifling employments an idler a trifler

Core loss

Energy wasted by hysteresis or eddy currents in the core of an armature transformer etc

Scattergood

One who wastes a spendthrift

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Pining

Languishing drooping wasting away as with longing

Absque impetitione vasti

Absque impetitione vasti [Lat.] (without impeachment of waste), a reservation frequently made to a tenant for life, that no man shall proceed against him for waste

Tail after possibility of issue extinct, Tenant in

interest to another, such other will be only a tenant pur autre vie, and will be punishable for waste. Apparently, impossibility will not be presumed on account of age, Co. Litt. 28 a. The attributes of this

Tail

(2) With the exception of a tenant-in-tail after possibility of issue extinct who may be liable for equitable waste, the owner may commit waste upon it without being impeachable for it, and so it is said may

Land-reeve

likewise to the stocking of commons, and encroachment of every kind, as well as to prevent or detect waste, and spoil in general, whether by the tenants or others; and to report the same to the manager

Will, Estate at

entitled to them. He is not bound to maintain or repair the premises, but is liable for wilful waste. We have seen that either party may determine this estate. The lessor can do so by an express

Copyhold

estovers, i.e., housebote, hedgebote, and ploughbote, unless restrained by particular custom. (4) He cannot commit any kind of waste, unless there exists a particular custom to warrant it. (5) Copyholds of inheritance are descendible accord-ing to the

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