Devastavit

[L. Lat. from devastare, to waste.] He has wasted. Waste by an executor or administrator; a mismanagement of the estate and effects of the deceased, in squandering and misapplying the assets contrary to the trust reposed in him.* Shep. Touch. 485.

2 Williams on Executors, 1629. 2 Oreenl. on Uvid. § 847 a.

In practice

A return made by a sheriff, (in addition to the return of nulla bona,) to a writ of execution against an executor or administrator, signifying that he has wasted the goods of the testator or intestate; upon which the plaintiff may have execution unmediately against the defendant personally, by fieri facias de bonis propriis.

2 Tidd's Pr. 1018, 1025. Shep. Touch. 486. 6 Co. 32. 8 Salk. 126.

An entry or suggestion, on record, of waste by an executor or administrator, made on the part of a plaintiff, as the foundation of a new writ, or of an action of debt.* 2 Tidd's Pr. 1113, 1114.

6 Co. 32.