IMPEACHMENT OF WASTE

By SovConn | June 23, 2013

impeachment of waste.Hist. An action for waste against the tenant of the harmed property.

“[F]or above five hundred years past, all tenants for life or for any less estate, have been punishable or liable to be impeached for waste, both voluntary and permissive; unless their leases be made, as sometimes they are, without impeachment of waste ….” 2 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 283 (1766).

[Blacks Law 8th]

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