Permissive Waste

Waste suffered by omission of care, not by actual depredation; the mere neglect or omission to do what will prevent injury, as, to suffer a house to go to decay for want of repairs; and voluntary waste consists in the commission of destructive acts, as, pulling down a house, or plowing up a flower garden. 57 111. App. 663. See Waste.

That kind of waste which is a matter of omission only, as by suffering a house to fall for want of necessary reparations. 2 Bl. Comm. 281; Willey v. Laraway, 64 Vt. 559, 25 Atl. 436 ; Beekman v. Van Dolsen, 63 Hun, 487, 18 N. Y. Supp. 376; White v. Wagner. 4 Har. & J. (Md.) 391, 7 Am. Dec. 674.
—'Voluntary-waste. Active or positive waste; waste done or committed, in contradistinction to that which results from mere negligence, which is calied "permissive" waste. 2 Bouv. Inst. no. 2394. Voluntary or comtaissive waste consists of injury to the demised premises or some part thereof, when occasioned by some deliberate or voluntary act, as, for instance, the pulling down of a house or removal of floors, windows, doors, furnaces, shelves, or other things affixed to and forming part of the freehold. Regan v. Luthy, 16 Daly, 413, 11 N. Y. Supp. 709. Contrasted with "permissive" waste.

Defined under Waste in Black's Law Dictionary.

Waste which is allowed or suffered.

Waste resulting from