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Absque Impetitione Vasti

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

a] Without impeachment of waste; without accountability for waste; without liabilily to suit for waste. A elatse anciently often inserted in leases, (as the equivalent English phrase sometimes is,) signifying that the tenant or lessee shall not be liable to suit, (¢mpetitio,) or challenged, or called to account, for committing waste.

2 Bl. Comm. 283; 4 Kent, Comm. 78; Co. Litt. 220a; Litt. $352.