- wasting his estate
- Squandering one's funds or property or impairing one's own health, and ability to labor and have earnings, by drunkenness and riotous living. 24 Am J2d Div & S § 94.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
wasting his estate
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