ESTREPEMENT

A Bl)ecles of aggravated waste, by stripping or devastating the land, to the injury of the reversioner, and especially pending a suit for po e ion. -Estrepement, writ of. This was a common-law writ of waste, which lay in particular for the reversioner against the tenant for life, in respect of damage or injury to the land committed by the latter. As it was only auxiliary to a real action for recovery of the land, and as equity afforded the same relief 'by injunction, the writ fell into disuse. ET. And. The introductory word of sev• eral Latin and law French phrases formerly in common use. [s. 450]