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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)....
Gatten tree
A name given to the small trees called guelder rose Viburnum Opulus cornel Cornus sanguinea and spindle tree Euonymus Europaeligus...
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...
Mahwa tree
An East Indian sapotaceous tree Bassia latifolia and also Bassia butyracea whose timber is used for wagon wheels and the flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink It is one of the butter trees The oil known as mahwa and yallah is obtained from the kernels of the fruit...
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...
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