A life estate without impeachment for waste will be enjoined from committing malicious waste.

• A. Not actionable
• B. Immediate termination
• C. Enjoined from committing malicious waste
• D. Will be rewarded

Answer: (C)

The main idea is the duty of a life tenant not to waste the property and the remedies available to protect the future interest. Even if the instrument creating the life estate doesn’t provide for impeachment for waste (a damages claim after waste), the owner of the future interest can seek equitable relief to stop ongoing or future waste. A court will issue an injunction to prevent malicious waste because delaying or allowing waste would diminish the property’s value for the person who will eventually own it. So, the correct choice is that the life estate will be enjoined from committing malicious waste. The other options don’t fit: there is a remedy available (injunction), termination of the life estate isn’t the automatic response to waste, and there’s no notion of a “reward” for waste.