Lat. In old English law. (1) Exile; banishment from one’s country. (2) Driving away; despoiling. The name of a species of waste, which consisted in driving away tenants or vassals from the estate; as by demolishing buildings, and so compelling the tenants to leave, or by enfranchising the bond servants, and unlawfully turning them out of their tenements. Fleta, 1. 1, c. 9. Exilium est patriae privatio, natalis soli mutatio, legnm nativariun amissio. 7 Coke, 20. Exile is a privation of country, a change of natal soil, a loss of native laws.