Waste

writ of. An old mixed action which lay for one who had the next estate of inheritance, against a tenant for life, etc., who was committing wasta It has long since given place to the action on the case and to the remedy by bill in equity for an injunction. Waste in the tenet: the writ which lay when the particular estate still existed, and the writ was brought both for the damages and for the estate. Waste in the tenuit: the writ which lay when the particular estate was at an end, and the writ was for damages only.