devastavit

devastavit englanniksi

1. Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or administrator; devastation.

2. (quote-book) Cloysters, and M. Wotton at the Three Daggers in Street|Fleet-street|year=1702|page=191|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=KNBIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA190|oclc=15632464|passage=Waſt may be committed by ſelling or confuſing the Teſtator's Goods, leaving debts unpaid. By (..) not having enough to pay them by ſelling of the Teſtator's Goods at an undervalue if by Covin, but if upon a judgment the Sheriff ſell them at undervalue, this is no ''Devaſtavit'' in the Executor.

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4. (quote-book) If an administrator pay the debts of the intestate in such order as the law appoints to the value of all the goods with his own money, he may lawfully dispose of the goods as he pleases, and it will not be a devastavit.

5. ''In full'', writ of devastavit: a writ issued against an executor or administrator claiming compensation for such misapplication of assets.

6. (inflection of)