An action of waste shall be maintainable by the heir for waste done in the time of the heir’s ancestor, as well as in the heir’s own time, and as well against the executors or administrators of the tenant who committed the waste, as against the tenant.

Code 1852, § 1760; Code 1915, § 3327; Code 1935, § 3792; 25 Del. C. 1953, § 905; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 84 Del. Laws, c. 42, § 1