Devastavit

Quick meaning: Devastavit is a noun meaning (property law) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or administrator; devastation.

Meaning

(property law) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or administrator; devastation.

More Meanings

1. (property law) In full, writ of devastavit: a writ issued against an executor or administrator claiming compensation for such misapplication of assets.

Example Sentences

He was without authority, as the administrator in chief was without duty to him, for defaults or devastavits during the preceding administration.

In the case of an executor committing a devastavit, and a decree for payment of the amount, the debt is considered as due from the time of the devastavit, and not from the date of the decree; […]

Waſt may be committed by ſelling or confuſing the Teſtator's Goods, leaving debts unpaid. By […] not having enough to pay them by ſelling of the Teſtator's Goods at an undervalue if by Covin, but if upon a judgment the Sheriff ſell them at undervalue, this is no Devaſtavit in the Executor.

An executor is guilty of a devastavit if he pays legacies before the debts. […] If an administrator pay the debts of the intestate in such order as the law appoints to the value of all the goods with his own money, he may lawfully dispose of the goods as he pleases, and it will not be a devastavit.

Word Forms

• devastavits

Synonyms for devastavit

Depending on context, synonyms include devastation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include devastation, vastation, waste, wasting, desolation, ravaging.

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