Dilapidation

[L. Lat. dilapida^ tio, from di, apart, and lapidare, from lapis, a stone.] Literally, the taking apart of the stones of a building. The pulling down of a building or any part of it; the suffering a building, or any part of it, to fall, or be in a state of decay; neglect of necessary repairs of a building.* Grady on Fixtures, 269, et seq.

5 Carr. dt P. 289.

Used as synonymous with waste in buildings, and sometimes extended so as to include waste in lands, woods, &c.

Qrady on Fixtures, 222, 275.

See infra.

In ecclesiastical law

A kind of ecclesiastical waste, which is either voluntary, by pulling down, or permissive, by suffering the chancel, parsonage, and other buildings thereunto belonging, to decay.

3 Bl. Com. 91. 8 Steph. Com. 112, 711.

Dilapidation is where an incumbent on a church living suffers the parsonage house or outhouses to fall down, or lie in decay for want of necessary reparation; or it is the pulling down or destroying any of the houses or buildings belonffing^to a spiritual living, or destroying of the woods, trees, &c. appertaining to the same. Degg^s Parson** Counsellor, b.

1, c. 8.