DOUBT
Categories: Property
Definition (1910 Edition)
then actually seised, whereas, if the recovery were had against another person, and the tenant in tail were vouchee, it barred every latent right and interest which he might have in the lands recovered. 2 Bl. Comm. 359.—Double waste. When a tenant bound to repair suffers a house to be wasted, and then unlawfully fells timber to repair it, he is said to commit double waste. Co. Litt. 53.—Double will. A will in which two persons join, each leaving his property and estate to the other, so that the survivor takes the whole. Evans vy. Smith, 28
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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