[001] he has neither proprietary nor possessory right, [he has] nothing except bare dominium [002] with possession. If he commits waste, he commits it in the property of another, [003] so to speak. For that reason, if he is convicted of waste, he loses the wardship, [004] restores damages and gives an amercement to the king,1 which is not true of a woman [005] if she wastes her dower, for she does not lose the dower, but will be given a guardian [006] or curator, to prevent her from misusing it, and must refund damages. More completely [007] another's, as where one who has neither of these, commits waste in another's [008] property without the license and consent of those whose property it is. Such waste, [009] since it is wrongful, since it is robbery, so to speak, is converted into novel disseisin [010] or trespass, according as the usurper does or does not allege that the tenement is his.2 [011] With respect to the words waste and exile, it is clear that they are not to be [012] given the same meaning. But waste and destruction are almost the same, because [013] they apply interchangeably [waste is the same as destruction, and conversely,] [014] to all destruction generally. It is generally said to be exile when something [015] is done to disfigure or mar the court and chief messuage, as where one casts down [016] houses and sells them; that will be to its great disfigurement, though the dwellers do [017] [not] have a derelict mansio. And so if he fells or uproots3 shade trees and fruit trees [018] growing in the court or around the houses; that will be to its very great disfigurement.
If a guardian commits waste in another's property, as in land he holds in the name of wardship.
[020] When a guardian commits waste in his wardship, in the property of another, so to [021] speak, let the sheriff be ordered to forbid him to commit waste or exile etc. by this [022] writ: The king to the sheriff, greeting. We order you to forbid such a one to commit [023] waste, sale, or exile of the lands etc. (as above) which he has in wardship of the [024] inheritance of such a one in such a vill, to the disherison etc. And let the attachment [025] be made as above, [or thus: If such a one has made you secure etc. put A. [026] by gage etc. to appear on such a day to answer B. who was the wife of C., mother [027] of D., the daughter and heir of the same C., as to why he committed waste etc. (as [028] above).] in a personal action. And note that it ought to be adjudged waste if a woman [029] in her dower, or a guardian in his wardship, sells or aliens lands, rents, villeins or [030] other heritable things, or if he manumits villeins or tallages them beyond reason by [031] which they are destroyed. [Or] if he casts down houses and builds thereof elsewhere, [032] or if he burns them (unless it is by accident) [or] if he uproots a wood or garden, in [033] whole or in part. [Or if] anything there is taken,