Definition of Absque Impetitione Vasti

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Absque impetitione vasti
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    Without impeachment of waste. Signifying the tenant's nonliability for waste.

  • Absque Impetitione Vasti
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    Without impeachment of waste; without accountability for waste; without liabillty to suit for waste. A clause anciently often inserted in leases, (as the equivalent English phrase sometimes is.) signifying that the tenant or lessee shall not be liable to suit, (tm-petitio,) or challenged, or called to account, for committing waste, 2 Bl. Comm. 283 ; 4 Kent, Comm. 78; Co. Litt. 220a; Litt. § 352.