Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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impeachment of waste
Hist. An action for waste against the tenant of the harmed property."[Flor above five hundred years past, all tenants for life or for any less estate, have been punishable or liable to be impeached for waste, both voluntary and permissive; unless their leases be made, as sometimes they are, without impeachment of waste ...." 2 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 283 (1766).
without impeachment of waste.
(Of a tenant) not subject to an action for waste; not punishable for waste. ( This clause is inserted in a lease to give a tenant the right to take certain actions (such as cutting timber) without being held liable for waste. But a tenant cannot abuse the right and will usu. be held liable for maliciously committing waste. - Also termed absque impetitione vasti.