"De Vasto" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL

De Vasto LAW AND LEGAL
Definition:

writ of waste. A writ which might be brought by him who had the immediate estate of inheritance in rever-sion or remainder, against the tenant for life, in dower, by curtesy, or for years, where the latter had committed waste in

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Ad Exhieredationem LAW AND LEGAL

To the disherison. or disinheriting; to the injury of the Inheritance. Bract, fol. 15a; 3 Bl. Comm. 288. Formal words …

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De Estrepamento LAW AND LEGAL

A writ which lay to prevent or stay waste by a tenant, during the pendency of a suit against him …

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Rationalibus Divisis LAW AND LEGAL

An abol-ished writ which lay where two lords, ln divers towns, had selgnlorles adjoining, for him who found hls waste …

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Tenet; Tenuit LAW AND LEGAL

Lat. He holds; he held. In the Latin forms of the writ of waste against a tenant, these words intro-duced …

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Terris Liberandis LAW AND LEGAL

A writ that lay for a man convicted hy attaint, to bring the record and process before the king, and …

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Writ Of Waste LAW AND LEGAL

The name of a writ to be issued against a tenant who has committed waste of the premises. There are …

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