Tenant for life or years liable for treble damages for waste
If someone rents or has use of a property for a set time or for their lifetime, they are not allowed to damage or destroy any part of it. If they do cause that kind of damage without written permission, they can be sued. As punishment, they lose the part of the property they damaged and have to pay three times the value of the damage done.
537.420. for for . — If any , for life or years, shall commit waste during his , of anything belonging to the so held, without so to do, he shall be subject to a for such waste, and shall lose the thing wasted and pay treble the amount at which the waste shall be assessed.
(RSMo 1939 § 1939 § 3003)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 2616; 1919 § 6910; 1909 § 7913
(2002) Presence of clause in was not a of right to sue under section and did not constitute implied for tenant to commit waste. Brizendine v. Conrad, 71 S.W.3d 587 (Mo.banc).
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