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Devastation

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Wasteful use of the property of a deceased person; as, for extravagant funeral or other unnecessary expenses.

2 Bl. Comm. 508.

DEVASTAVE RUNT (Lat. pL of devastavit). They have wasted. A term applied in old English law to waste by executors and administrators, and to the process issued against them therefor.

Cowell.

See "Devastavit."

See Devastavit.