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Forest-offence

Matched in: Term Forest-offence

Private forest

Matched in: Term Private forest

Free-board, or freebord

a width determined by local custom, varying in different places, lying outside the fence of a manor, park, forest, or other estate, or sometimes, but less accurately, as the mere right of claiming the use of such … solo. Free-board is most commonly found in Leicester-shire and the Midland counties, and is mentioned in local Inclosure Acts, e.g., in the (English) Oadby Inclosure Act (32 Geo. 2, c. 51); but it also occurs elsewhere: thus

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Cut and removed from any land

the limits of the land held by the grantee or the lessee under the grant or lease, Divisional Forest Officer v. Tata Finlay, (2001) 5 SCC 684: AIR 2001 SC 2672 (2676). [Kerala Grants and Leases (Modification … Tata Finlay, (2001) 5 SCC 684: AIR 2001 SC 2672 (2676). [Kerala Grants and Leases (Modification of Rights) Act, 1980, s. 4] Cut and removed from any land, the words 'cut and removed from any land, used

Royalty

1985 SC 1293 (1336): (1985) Supp SCC 280: (1985) 3 SCR 26. Royalty on timber brought from private forests imposed by executive committee of Jowai Auto-nomous District Council is in fact a compulsory exaction of money by … SCC 38: (1986) 3 SCR 569. [United Khasi and Jaintia Hills Autonomy District (Management & Control of Forests) Act, (1 of 1959)] Royalty is a tax, India Cement Ltd. v. State of T.N., AIR 1990 SC 85:

Agriculture and agricultural crop

the products of the land which have some utility either for consumption or for trade and commerce including forest products such as timber, sal and piyasal trees, casuarina plantations, tendu leaves, horranuts etc., Gwalior Rayons silk Mfg … of Vested Forests, 1990 Supp SCC 785 (789): AIR 1990 SC 1747. [Kerala Private Forests (vesting and Assignment), Act, 1971 (26 of 1971)]

Owner

Includes a Court of Wards in respect of property under the superintendence or charge of such Court. [Indian Forest Act, 1927 (16 of 1927), s. 2 (4A)] Includes any person using a boiler as agent of the owner

Entitled

Raj Kumar Rajindra Singh v. State of Himachal Pradesh, (1990) 4 SCC 320: AIR 1990 SC 1833 (1847). [Forest Act, 1927, s. 29(1)]

Cattle

buffaloes, horses, mares, geldings, ponies, colts, fillies, mules, asses, pigs, rams, ewes, sheep, lambs, goats and kids. [Indian Forest Act, 1927 (16 of 1927), s. 2 (1)] Cattle, includes elephants, camels, horses, asses, mules, sheep, goats and swine.

Afforest

Afforest, to turn ground into a forest, Carta de Foresta, c. 1. See (English) Forestry Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 58), and

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