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TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.

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WITHOUT DAY

TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.

This signifies that the cause or thing to which it relates is indefinitely adjourned; as when a case is adjourned without day, it is not again to be inquired into; when the legislature adjourn without day they are not to meet again. This is usually expressed in Latin, sine die. A term used to signify that an adjournment or continuance is indefinite or final, or that no … [Read more...]

WITHOUT IMPEACHMENT OF WASTE

TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.

When a tenant for life holds the land without impeachment of waste, he is of course dispunishable for waste whether willful or otherwise. But still this right must not be wantonly abused so as to destroy the estate, and he will be enjoined from committing malicious waste. The effect of the insertion of this clause in a lease for life is to give the tenant the right to cut … [Read more...]

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