estrepement
English edit
Etymology edit
Old French [Term?] (“damage, waste”)
Noun edit
estrepement (countable and uncountable, plural estrepements)
- (law) A destructive kind of waste committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses.
- 176, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, book, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
- And the writ of estrepement lay at the common law‥to stop any waste which the vanquished party might be tempted to commit.
References edit
- “estrepement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.