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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
DAY, AND WASTE (Lat. anniis, dies, et vastum). A part of king's preroga^ tive, whereby he takes the profits of the lands and tenements of those attainted of petty treason or felony, for a year and a day, but, in the end, may waste the tenements, destroy the houses, root up the woods, gardens, and pasture, and plough up the meadows (except the lord of the fee agree with him for redemption of such waste); after which the lands are to be restored to the lord of the fee.
Staundf.
Prerog. c.
16, fol. 44.
By Magna Charta, it would appear that the profits for a year and a day were given in lieu of the waste.
9 Hen. Ill, c. 22.
But 17 Edw. II. declares the king's right to both.