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...

Gourd tree

A tree the Crescentia Cujete or calabash tree of the West Indies and Central America...

Locust tree

A large North American tree of the genus Robinia Robinia Pseudacacia producing large slender racemes of white fragrant papilionaceous flowers and often cultivated as an ornamental tree In England it is called acacia...

maidenhair tree

A deciduous dioecious gymnospermous Chinese tree Ginkgo biloba having fan shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds also called the ginkgo it exists almost exclusively in cultivation esp as an ornamental street tree...

marang tree

A Philippine tree Artocarpus odoratissima similar to the breadfruit tree bearing edible fruit Called also marang...

Quicken tree

The European rowan tree called also quickbeam and quickenbeam See Rowan tree...

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...

Shea tree

An African sapotaceous tree Bassia Parkii syn Butyrospermum Parkii from the seeds of which a substance resembling butter is obtained the African butter tree...

Soapberry tree

Any tree of the genus Sapindus esp Sapindus saponaria the fleshy part of whose fruit is used instead of soap in washing linen also called soap tree...

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