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Ornamental timber

Ornamental timber, cutting down, by the tenantfor life is a species of equitable waste (q.v.), Micklethwaite v. Micklethwaite, (1857) 1 De G&J 504....


Timber

Timber, has an enlarged or restricted sense, according to the connection in which it is employed, and may refer to standing trees or wood suitable for the manufacture of lumber to be used for building and allied purposes, Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. 54, p. 1.Timber, may be used in a restricted as well as enlarged sense. In the restricted sense it means specified trees like oak, ash, elm, teace, blackwood, ebony etc. and in the enlarged sense it means woods suitable for building, furniture, and carpentry etc., and includes standing trees. Its true meaning has to be determined from the context in which it is employed, Divisional Forest Officer v. Tata Finlay Ltd., AIR 2001 SC 2672. [See also Kerala Grants and Leases (Modification of Rights) Act, 1980, s. 4]Means at common law oak, ash and elm are timber if over twenty years old, but not so old as to have unusable wood in them. Other trees may be timber by the custom of the country. Thus beech is timber by the custom of Buckinghamshire an...


Standing timber

Standing timber, Standing timber may ordinarily not be regarded as 'goods', but by the inclusive definition given in s. 2(7) of the Sale of Goods Act things which are attached to the land may be the subject-matter of contract of sale provided that under the terms of the contract they are to be severed before sale or under the contract of sale, State of Maharashtra v. Champalal Kishanlal Mahata, AIR 1971 SC 908 (910): (1970) 1 SCC 611....


ornamental

Serving to ornament characterized by ornament beautifying embellishing...


Ornamentation

The act or art of ornamenting or the state of being ornamented...


Ornamental Grounds

Ornamental Grounds. The Town Gardens Protection Act, 1863, provides for the protection of gardens and ornamental grounds in cities and boroughs. See GARDENS; OPEN SPACES....


Ornaments rubric

Ornaments rubric, that rubric of the Prayer Book which directs just before the Order for Morning Prayer that--Such Ornaments of the Church, and of the Ministers thereof, at all times of their Ministration shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England by the Authority of Parliament in the Second Year of the reign of King Edward the Sixth.The meaning of this rubric has been declared by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to be that 'vestments' of ministers as celebrates cannot be worn, though prescribed by the First Prayer Book of Edward the Sixth, which had the authority of the First Act of Uniformity (2 & 3 Edw. 6, c. 1; see Clifton v. Ridsdale, (1877) 2 PD 276; but that judgment has been the subject of much contro-versy. See Whitehead's Church Law, tit. 'Vestments'; Talbot on Ritual; Encyclop'dia of the Laws of England, tit. 'Vestments'; Lely on the Church of England Position, p. 148....


Half timbered

Constructed of a timber frame having the spaces filled in with masonry said of buildings...


ornamentally

By way of ornament...


Ornamenter

One who ornaments a decorator...


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