Nul Waste
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In pleading. The general issue in an action of waste.
3 Inst. 700a, 708a.
The plea of nul waste admits nothing, but puts the whole declaration in issue; and in support of this plea the defendant may give in evidence anything which proves that the act charged is no waste, as that it happened by tempest, lightning, and the like.
Co. Litt. 283a; 3 WnL Saund. 238, note 6.