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...]
Search Results for: malicious
WILFULL
intentionally. 2. In charging certain offences it is required that they should be stated to be willfully done. Arch. Cr. Pl. 51, 58; Leach's Cr. L. 556. 3. In Pennsylvania it has been decided that the word maliciously was an equivalent for the word willfully, in an indictment for arson. … [Read more...]
WILLFUL
Intentional. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition Proceeding from a conscious motion of the will; intending the result which actually comes to pass; designed; intentional; malicious. A Willful differs essentially from a negligent act. The one is positive and the other negative. Intention is always separated from negligence by a precise tine of demarkation. In common … [Read more...]
WASTE
A spoil or destruction houses, gardens, trees, or other corporeal hereditaments, to the disherison of him that hath the remainder or reversion in fee simple or fee tail. 2. The doctrine of waste is somewhat different in this country from what it is in England. It is adapted to our circumstances. Waste is either voluntary or permissive. 3. Section 1. Voluntary waste. A voluntary … [Read more...]
WANTONNESS
A reckless or malicious and intentional disregard of the property, rights, or safety of others, implying, actively, a licentious or contemptuous willingness to injure and disregard of the consequences to others, and, passively, more than mere negligence, that is, a conscious and intentional disregard of duty. Reckless sport; willfully unrestrained ac-tion, running immoderately … [Read more...]