Timber Act 1765
TIMBER ACT 1765 | ||
CHAP. XVII. | ||
An Act for encouraging the planting of Timber Trees. | ||
Tenants for lives renewable for ever, performing covenants, not impeachable of waste in trees planted by them, notwithstanding covenant, law, or usage, | ||
extended to fee farms by 7 G. 3. 20. sec. 11. 17 & 18 G. 3. c. 35. | ||
WHEREAS the distress this kingdom must soon be in for want of timber, is most obvious: and whereas it is equal to inheritors, whether tenants do not plant, or have a property in what they plant: be it enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal and commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of September one thousand seven hundred and sixty six tenants for lives renewable for ever, paying the rents and performing the other covenants in their leases, shall not be impeachable of waste in timber trees or woods, which they shall hereafter plant, any covenant in leases or settlements heretofore made, law, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. |