writ of waste. A writ which might be brought by him who had the immediate estate of inheritance in rever-sion or remainder, against the tenant for life, in dower, by curtesy, or for years, where the latter had committed waste in
writ of waste. A writ which might be brought by him who had the immediate estate of inheritance in rever-sion or remainder, against the tenant for life, in dower, by curtesy, or for years, where the latter had committed waste in