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To strip; to despoil; to lay waste; to commit waste upon an estate, as by cutting down trees, removing buildings, etc. To injure the value of a reversionary interest by stripping or spoiling the estate. … [Read more...] about ESTREPE

And this he prays may be inquired of by the country. The conclusion of a plaintiff's pleading, tendering an issue to the country. 1 Salk. 6. Literally translated In the modern forms. … [Read more...] about ET HOC PETIT QUOD INQUIRATUR PER PATRIAM

An issue that is ethical in nature; see ethics and ethical. … [Read more...] about ETHICAL ISSUE

A species of aggravated waste, by stripping or devastating the land, to the injury of the reversioner, and especially pending a suit for possession. Estrepement, writ of. This was a common law writ of waste, which lay in particular for the reversioner against the tenant for life, in respect of damage or injury to the land committed by the latter. As it was only auxiliary to a … [Read more...] about ESTREPEMENT

And thereupon [or thereof] he prays judgment. A clause at the end of pleadings, praying the judgment of the court in favor of the party pleading. It occurs as early as the time of Bracton, and is literally translated in the modern forms. Bract fol. 57b; Crabb, Eng. Law, 217. … [Read more...] about ET INDE PETIT JUDICIUM