Plane Tree - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Buttonwood
The Platanus occidentalis or American plane tree a large tree producing rough balls from which it is named called also buttonball tree and in some parts of the United States sycamore The California buttonwood is Platanus racemosa...
Platanus
A genus of trees the plane tree...
Plane
Any tree of the genus Platanus...
Platan
The plane tree...
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; ...
Banding plane
A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work...
Capping plane
A plane used for working the upper surface of staircase rails...
Plane parallel
Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel as a piece of glass...
Plane table
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