单词 | devastavit |
释义 | devastavitn. Law. a. A writ that lies against an executor or administrator for waste or misapplication of the testator's estate. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > writ > other types of writ utrumc1290 quo warrantoa1325 writ of right closea1325 writ of oyer and terminer1414 writ of right1414 quare impedit?a1424 prohibition?1435 praecipec1440 supplicavita1450 replevy1451 ouster-le-main1485 praecipe in capitec1523 value1527 inhibition1532 rehabilitation1533 melius inquirendum1549 ne exeat regnum1559 quo minus1592 letters (or writ) of supplementc1600 inhibition1603 fair pleading1607 ingressu1607 ne exeat regno1607 account1622 associationa1625 ship-writ1640 cessavit1641 ne exeat1644 devastavit1651 right close1651 writ of second deliverance1652 fair pleader1655 beaupleader1700 proclamation writ1713 writ of inquiry1809 writ of intendence and respondence1881 1579 Rastell's Expos. Termes Lawes (new ed.) Deuastauerunt bona testatoris, is when Executours wyl deliuer the legacyes that their Testatour hath geeuen, or make restytutyon for wronges done by him, or pay hys det due vpon contracts or other detes vpon specialties, whose dayes of paymentes are not yet come, etc.] 1651 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 176 The Sheriffe shall be solizited for a Devastavit. 1729 G. Jacob New Law-dict. (at cited word) His Executor or Administrator is made liable to a devastavit, by Stat. 4 & 5 W. & M. c. 24. 1808 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius II. xix. 697 A writ of fi. fa. having been sued out on the judgment, to which the sheriff had returned a devastavit. b. The offence of such waste or misapplication. ΚΠ 1729 G. Jacob New Law-dict. (at cited word) Where an executor, &c. payeth legacies before debts, and hath not sufficient to pay both, 'tis a devastavit. Also where an Executor sells the Testator's Goods at an Undervalue, it is a Devastavit. 1893 Romer in Law Times 95 54/2 The rule that an executor who pays a statute-barred debt is not thereby committing a devastavit. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < |
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