Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Sparsim

[Latin] Hist. Scattered; here and there. ( This term was used in several cases - for example, when an action to recover for waste not only when the injury was complete, but also when the injury was partial or scattered. "And if waste be done sparsim, or here and there, all over a wood, the whole wood shall be recovered; or if in several rooms of a house, the whole house shall be forfeited; because it is impracticable for the reversioner to enjoy only the identical places wasted, when lying interspersed with the other. But if waste be done only in one end of a wood (or perhaps in one room of a house) if that can be conveniently separated from the rest, that part only is the locus oastatus, or thing wasted, and that only shall be forfeited to the reversioner." 2 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 283-84 (1766).