Destruction
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A term used in old English law, generally in connection with "waste," and having, according to some, the same meaning.
1 Reeve, Hist. Bng. Law, 385; 3 Bl. Comm. 223.
Britton, however, makes a distinction between waste of woods and destruction of houses, Britt. c.
66; St. Marlb. c. 17.