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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.
Dilapidation is derived from the Latin for scattering the stones (lapides) of a building.[1]
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dilapidation". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 270.
