Dilapidation

A species of ecclesiastical waste which occurs whenever the incumbent suffers any edifices of his ecclesiastical living to go to ruin or decay. It is either voluntary, by pulling down, or permissive, by suffering the church, parsonage houses, and other buildings thereunto belonging, to decay. And the remedy for courts of common law. It is also held to be good cause of deprivation if the bishop, parson, or other ecclesiastical person dilapidates buildings or cuts down timber growing on the patrimony of the church, unless for necessary repairs; and that a writ of prohibition will also lie against him in the common-law courts. 3 Bl. Comm. 91.

A species of ecclesiastical waste which occurs whenever the incumbent' suffers any edifices of his ecclesiastical living to go to ruin or decay. It is either voluntary, by pulling down or permissive, by suffering the church, parsonage-houses, and other buildings thereunto belonging, to decay. And the remedy for either lies either in the spiritual court, where the canon law prevails, or in the courts of common law. It is also held to be good cause of deprivation if the bishop, parson, or other ecclesiastical person dilapidates buildings or cuts down timber growing on the patrimony of the church, unless for necessary repairs; and that a writ of prohibition will also lie against him in the common-law courts. 3 Bla. Com. 91.

Literally, the taking apart of the stones of a building, — hence the pulling down of a building, or part of a building; the suffering of a building, or part of a building, to fall, or be in a state of decay; neglect of necessary repairs of a building.

In ecclesiastical law. A kind of ecclesiastical waste, — waste committed or permitted on the lands or buildings of a church living.

A species of ecclesiastical waste which occurs whenever the ineumbent suiters any edifices of his ecclesiustical living to go to ruin or decay. It is either voluntary, by pulling down, or permissive, by suffering the church, parsonagehouses, and other buildings thereunto belonging, to decay, And the remedy for either lies either in the spiritual court, where the canon law prevails, or in the courts of common Jaw. It is also held to be good cause of deprivation if the bishop, parson, or other evclesiastical person dilapidates buildings or cuts down timber growing on the patrimony of the church, unless for necessary repairs; and that a writ of prohibition will also lie against him in the common-law courts. 3 Bl, Comm. 91. The term is also used, in the law of landlord and tenant, to signify the neglect of necessary repairs to a building, or suffering il Dilationes in legesunt odiose. Delays in law are odions. Branch, Prine.

Ecclesiastical waste; waste committed or permitted on the lands or buildings of a church living. Dilationes in lege sunt odiosse, /. Delays in law are odious.

[L. Lat. dilapida^ tio, from di, apart, and lapidare, from lapis, a stone.] Literally, the taking apart of the stones of a building. The pulling down of a building or any part of it; the suffering a building, or any part of it, to fall, or be in a state of decay; neglect of necessary repairs of a building.* Grady on Fixtures, 269, et seq. 5 Carr. dt P. 289. Used as synonymous with waste in buildings, and sometimes extended so as to include waste in lands, woods, &c. Qrady on Fixtures, 222, 275. See infra.

In ecclesiastical law. A kind of ecclesiastical waste, which is either voluntary, by pulling down, or permissive, by suffering the chancel, parsonage, and other buildings thereunto belonging, to decay. 3 Bl. Com. 91. 8 Steph. Com. 112, 711. Dilapidation is where an incumbent on a church living suffers the parsonage house or outhouses to fall down, or lie in decay for want of necessary reparation; or it is the pulling down or destroying any of the houses or buildings belonffing^to a spiritual living, or destroying of the woods, trees, &c. appertaining to the same. Degg^s Parson** Counsellor, b. 1, c. 8.