Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

WASSAIL (0. Eng. woes hal, " be whole...

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 361 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

WASSAIL (0. Eng. woes See also:hal, " be whole," " be well ")  , primarily I gr is See also:waste chaln or eat r, and he may use the p profits a alvahrerum lsubstantia (to use the See also:language of See also:Roman See also:law, from which the See also:English law of waste is in See also:great measure derived) . For instance, he may cut See also:timber in a See also:husband-like manner and open mines; but he may not commit what is called equitable waste, that is, pull down or deface the See also:mansion or destroy timber planted or See also:left for See also:ornament or shelter (Weld-Blundell v . See also:Wolseley, 1903, 2 Ch . 664) . Acts of equitable waste were, before 1875, not cognizable in courts of See also:common law, but by the Judicature See also:Act 1873, S . 25 (3), in the See also:absence of See also:special provisions to that effect an See also:estate for See also:life without See also:impeachment of waste does not confer upon the See also:tenant for life any legal See also:light to commit equitable waste . A copy-holder may not commit waste unless allowed to do so by the See also:custom of the See also:manor . The See also:penalty for waste is See also:forfeiture of the See also:copyhold; Galbraith v . Foynton, 1905, 2 K.B . 258 (see Copy-HOLD) . The Agricultural Holdings Acts 1900 and 1906, by See also:reason of their provisions giving See also:compensation for improvement, as regards the holdings to which they apply, override some of the old common law doctrines as to waste . The act of 1900 provides (s .

2 [31) that where a tenant, who claims compensation for improvements, has wrongfully been guilty of waste, either voluntary or permissive, the landlord shall be entitled to set off the sums due to him in respect a bowl which was carried See also:

round the streets by See also:young girls of such waste, and to have them assessed by See also:arbitration in manner singing carols at See also:Christmas and the New See also:Year . This See also:ancient provided by the acts of 1900 and 1906 . Under the act of 1906 the custom still survives here and there, especially in See also:Yorkshire, tenant is I emitted to disregard the terms of his tenancy as to the where the bowl is known as " the See also:vessel See also:cup," and is made of See also:holly and evergreens, inside which are placed one er two dolls trimmed with See also:ribbons . This cup is See also:borne on a stick by See also:children who go from See also:house to house singing Christmas carols . In See also:Devonshire and elsewhere it was the custom to See also:wassail the orchards on Christmas and New Year's See also:eve . Pitchers of See also:ale or See also:cider were poured over the roots of the trees to the See also:accompaniment of a rhyming See also:toast to their healths .

End of Article: WASSAIL (0. Eng. woes hal, " be whole," " be well ")
[back]
WASP (Lat. vespa)
[next]
WASTE (O. Fr. wast, guast, gast, gaste; Lat. vastus...

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.