Timber Act 1765

Minor reversioner, adjudged in chancery his benefit to purchase, allowance to guardian.

tenant for life, &c. purchasing, to stand place of planter.

VIII. Provided, That where the reversion belongs to a minor, and the court of chancery shall adjudge, that it is for the benefit of the minor to purchase such trees, the guardian shall have allowance for what he pays, and expences for such purchase; if the person purchasing such trees shall be tenant for life or in tail impeachable of waste, such purchaser shall stand in the place of the planter, and such trees, if not felled by hint during the subsistance of his title, shall be felled or valued according to the rates of this act.