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ANNUM DIEM ET VASTUM


ANNUM DIEM ET VASTUM, English law. The title which the king acquires in land, when a party, who held not of the king, is attainted of felony. Heacquires the power not only to take the profits for a full year, but towaste and demolish houses, and to extirpate woods and trees. 2. This is but a chattel interest.

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