| 单词 | year, day, and waste |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyear, day, and waste (b) year, day, and waste: a royal prerogative entitling the sovereign to any profits from property held by a person attainted (attaint v. 6) on a charge of petty treason or felony, continuing for a period of a year and a day and also including the right to destroy or damage the property during this period (cf. waste n. 7). Now historical.This prerogative was restricted in 1814, before being officially abolished in 1870. [Compare Anglo-Norman aveir le an et le wast (a1293).] ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > royal rights > specific rights of sovereign regality1414 year, day, and waste1433 aubaine1728 1433 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. July 1433 §43. m. 5 [Savyng allwey to the lorde of] the fee, eschetes of his landes, aftir yere, day and wast. a1558 W. Stanford Expos. Kinges Prerogative (1567) xvi. f. 49v If the husband be atteinted of felonie the kinge shall haue the yeare, daye and wast of the lands of the wife. 1676 T. Manley App. to Office & Duty of Executor 12 Felons forfeit their lives, Goods and Chattels, and the profit of their Lands for a Year, Day and Waste. 1783 W. Cruise Ess. Nature & Operation of Fines ix. 103 The king having seised on the manor of Sobbirs, for his year, day, and waste, on account of a felony committed by Thomas de Weyland. 1891 Eng. Hist. Rev. 6 371 We come to the chapter [of Prerogativa Regis] on which Dr. Henderson relies. The king is to have year, day and waste of the felon's land. 1914 M. de W. Hemmeon Burgage Tenure Mediaeval Eng. i. 42 Edward IV granted year, day and waste of a felon's or an outlaw's tenement to the citizens of Rochester. 2003 M. McGlynn Royal Prerogative & Learning Inns of Court ii. 106 Sedgwick..uses the example of the king's right to year, day and waste in the goods of felons. < as lemmas |
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