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Definition of Devastavit

Devastavit
Devastavit Dev`as*ta"vit, n. [L., he has wasted.] (Law) Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator. --Bouvier.

Meaning of Devastavit from wikipedia

- Adovacrius vero **** Saxonibus Andecavo venit. Magna tunc lues populum devastavit. Mortuus est autem Egidius et reliquit filium Syagrium nomine. Quo defuncto...
- suis ingressus, magnam multitudinem Sclavorum interficiens, eorum omnia devastavit. — Paulus Diaconus, Historia Langobardorum, Liber VI He became king of...
- Act 1623 applied to a claim against an executor personally founded on a devastavit and to proceedings to enforce the statutory right which simple contract...
- with the common law, does confine them to stricter rules, and what is a devastavit at law, must be so here. But in the case of trustees, and ****ignees, particularly...