Dilapidation
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
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.