Dilapidation
Destructive event to a building / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about a legal process. For areas with dilapidated buildings, see urban decay.
Dilapidation is a term meaning a destructive event to a building, but more particularly used in the plural in English law for
- the waste committed by the incumbent of an ecclesiastical living
- the disrepair for which a tenant is usually liable when he has agreed to give up his premises in good repair.
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Dilapidation is derived from the Latin for scattering the stones (lapides) of a building.[1]