estrepement

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noun

A destructive kind of waste committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses.

OriginOld French estrepement →
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Meanings

nounestrepement (countable and uncountable, plural estrepements)

plural estrepements

  1. countableuncountablelawA destructive kind of waste committed by a tenant for life, in lands, woods, or houses.
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    Estrepement is an old French word, ſignifying the ſame as waſte or extirpation: and the writ of eſtrepement lay at the common law, after judgment obtained in any action real, and before poſſeſſion was delivered by the ſheriff; to ſtop any waſte which the vanquiſhed party might be tempted to commit in lands, which were determined to be no longer his.

    1768, William Blackstone, “Of Waste”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, book III (Of Private Wrongs), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 225

Origin

  1. Old Frenchestrepement“damage, waste”
  2. Englishestrepement

From Old French estrepement (“damage, waste”). By surface analysis, estrepe + -ment.

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