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.