Dilapidation

A species of ecclesiastical waste which occurs whenever the ineumbent suiters any edifices of his ecclesiustical living to go to ruin or decay. It is either voluntary, by pulling down, or permissive, by suffering the church, parsonagehouses, and other buildings thereunto belonging, to decay, And the remedy for either lies either in the spiritual court, where the canon law prevails, or in the courts of common Jaw. It is also held to be good cause of deprivation if the bishop, parson, or other evclesiastical person dilapidates buildings or cuts down timber growing on the patrimony of the church, unless for necessary repairs; and that a writ of prohibition will also lie against him in the common-law courts.

3 Bl, Comm. 91.

The term is also used, in the law of landlord and tenant, to signify the neglect of necessary repairs to a building, or suffering il Dilationes in legesunt odiose. Delays in law are odions. Branch, Prine.