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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....
Half timbered
Constructed of a timber frame having the spaces filled in with masonry said of buildings...
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....
Keelson
A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel and binding the floor timbers to the keel in iron vessels a structure of plates situated like the keelson of a timber ship...
Goods
Goods, Computer programs are the product of an intellectual process, but once implanted in a medium they are widely distributed to computer owners. An analogy can be drawn to a compact-disc recording of an orchestral rendition. The music is produced by the artistry of musicians and in itself is not a 'good', but when transferred to a laser-readable disc it becomes a readily merchant-able commodity. Similarly, when a professor deliv-ers a lecture, it is not a good, but, when transcribed as a book, it becomes a good. That a computer program may be copyrightable as intellectual property does not alter the fact that once in the form of a floppy disc or other medium, the program is tangible, moveable and available in the marketplace. The fact that some programs may be tailored for specific purposes need not alter their status as 'goods' because the Code definition includes 'specially manufactured goods', Advent Systems Ltd. v. Unisys Corpn., 925 F. 2d 670 3dCir 1991. Associated Cement Compa...
Futtock
One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel one of the crooked transverse timbers passing across and over the keel...
Mudsill
The lowest sill of a structure usually embedded in the soil the lowest timber of a house also that sill or timber of a bridge which is laid at the bottom of the water See Sill...
Copyhold
Copyhold. Tenure in copyhold has been abolished under the (English) L.P. Acts, 1922 and 1925, and the Amending Acts of 1924 and 1926, but the greater part of the former title on this subject has been retained verbatim in view of the importance of the subject in examining titles. In the previous edition of this work, copyhold was described as a base tenure founded upon immemorial custom and usage; its origin is undiscoverable, but it is said to be the ancient villeinage modified and changed by the commutation of base services into specified rents, either in money or money's worth.A copyhold estate is a parcel of the demesnes of a manor held at the lord's will, and according to the custom of such manor. The tenant may have the same quantities of interest in this tenure as he may enjoy in freeholds, as an estate in fee-simple or (by particular custom) fee-tail, or for life, and he may have only a chattel interest of an estate for years in it. By the custom of some manors, the estate devol...
Deck cargo
Deck cargo. By s. 10 of the (English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 48), 'deck cargo' means any cargo carried either in any uncovered space on deck or in any covered space not included in the cubical contents forming the ship's registered tonnage. The (English) Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act, 1932 (22 Geo. 5, c. 9), s. 61, gives the Board of Trade power to make regulations, known as 'timber cargo regulations,' as to the carrying of timber in any uncovered space on deck....
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