Wasteful use of the property of a deceased person as for extravagant funeral or other unnecessary expenses. … [Read more...] about DEVASTATION
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DETERRENCE
The ideology that a sufficiently severe punishment for a crime will prevent the guilty person, and others, from committing the same crime. … [Read more...] about DETERRENCE
DEVASTAVERUNT
They have wasted. A term applied in old English law to waste by executors and administrators, and to the process issued against them therefor. Cowell. See DEVASTAVIT. … [Read more...] about DEVASTAVERUNT
DETESTATIO
Lat. In the civil law. A summoning made, or notice given, in the presence of witnesses, (denuntiatio facta cum testatione.) Dig. 50, 16, 40. … [Read more...] about DETESTATIO
DEVASTAVIT
Latin: He has wasted. The act of an executor or administrator in wasting the goods of the deceased; mismanagement of the estate by which a loss occurs ; a breach of trust or misappropriation of assets held in a fiduciary character; any violation or neglect of duty by an executor or administrator, involving loss to the decedent's estate, which makes him personally responsible to … [Read more...] about DEVASTAVIT