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Grove, in Webster's New World Dictionary, p. 641, a grove has been defined as a small wood; groups of trees standing together without undergrowth. The Shorter (Oxford English Dictionary, Vol. I, 838 also defines it as a small wood, a group to trees affording shade or forming avenues or walks. In Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. 98, p. 688 a grove is defined to mean a cluster of trees not sufficiently extensive to be called a wood; a group to trees of indefinite extent but not large enough to constitute a forest; especially such a group considered as furnishing shade for avenues and walks, Sardar Chandrajirao Angre v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1968 SC 494 (496): (1968) 1 SCR 761. [Madhya Bharat Abolition of Jagirs Act, 1951 (28 of 1951), s. 5(b) (iv)]