Gum Tree - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: gum treegum tree
Any tree that exudes a gum...
Grass tree
An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoeliga having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous grasslike leaves from the center of which arises a long stem bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat tail These plants are often called ldquoblackboysrdquo from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire They yield two kinds of fragrant resin called Botany bay gum and Gum Acaroides...
gumwood
wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum...
Macaranga gum
A gum of a crimson color obtained from a tree Macaranga Indica that grows in the East Indies It is used in taking impressions of coins medallions etc and sometimes as a medicine...
hazelwood
A reddish brown wood and lumber from the heartwood of the sweet gum tree...
manna gum
A tall tree Eucalyptus viminalis yielding a false manna...
Tree
Tree. Overhanging branches may be cut by an adjoining owner without notice to the owner of the tree, provided that the adjoining owner does not go upon the land of the owner of the tree, Lemmon v. Webb, 1895 AC 1. No right can be acquired by prescription for trees to overhang: per Lord Macnaghten, ibid.; and an action lies for damage to crops by overhanging trees, Smith v. Giddy, (1904) 1 KB 448.By the highway Act, 1835, ss. 64-66, no tree may be planted within 15 feet of the centre of a highway. See Stillwell v. New Windsor Corpn., (1932) 2 Ch 155 (highway authority removing trees transplanted on ancient highway).Power to plant trees is given to all highway authorities by the Roads Improvement Act, 1925, and also the removal of trees on adjacent land which obstruct the view at corners.As to the power to lop trees overhanging any street or public road in order to prevent interference with a telegraphic line, see the Telegraph (Construction) Act, 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 33). See TELEGRAPHS; ...
Bo tree
The peepul tree esp the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha...
Rowan tree
A european tree Pyrus aucuparia related to the apple but with pinnate leaves and flat corymbs of small white flowers followed by little bright red berries Called also roan tree and mountain ash The name is also applied to two American trees of similar habit Pyrus Americana and Pyrus sambucifolia...
Felling of trees
Felling of trees, means cutting, girdling, pollarding, uprooting or damaging a tree in any manner but shall not include lopping off of a limb of tree for such purposes as may be prescribed, The West Bengal Tress (Protection and Conservation in Non-forest Areas) Act, 2006, s. 3(3)....
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