What is to damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay called?
waste — (Law) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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