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Exile

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Banishment; a person banished. EXILIUM (Lat.) In old English law. Exile; setting free or wrongly ejecting bondtenants. Waste is called exilium when bondmen {servi) are set free or driven wrongfully from their tenements.

Co. Litt. 536.

Destruction; waste.

Du Cange

Any species of waste which drove away the inhabitants ipto exile, or had a tendency to do so.

Bac. Abr. "Waste" (A); 1 Reeve, Hist. Eng. 386.