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Categories: Property
Definition (1910 Edition)
674.—Voluntary waste. Active or positive waste; waste done or committed, in contradistinction to that whi results from mere neg ence which is call sce hl waste. Bouv. Inst. no. 2394. oluntary or commissive waste consists of injury to the demised premises or some part thereof. when occasioned by some deliberate or voluntary act, as, for instance, the pulling down of a house or removal of floors, windows, doors, furnaces, shelves, or other things affixed to and forming part of the freehold. Regan v. Luthy, 16 Daly, 413, 11 N. Y. Supp. 709. Contrasted with “permissive” waste—Writ of waste. The name of.a writ to be issued against a ten-
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