Timber Act 1783
TIMBER ACT 1783 | ||
CHAP. XXXIX. | ||
An Act to amend the Laws for the Encouragement of planting Timber Trees. | ||
Tenants for life impeachable of waste, or for years above 14 who plant may cut, sell, and dispose of the same during the term. | ||
WHEREAS the laws for the encouragement of tenants to plant timber trees have proved ineffectual: 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 passing of this act, any tenant for life or lives, by settlement, dower, courtesy, jointure, lease, or office civil, military, or ecclesiastical, impeachable of waste, or any tenant for years, exceeding fourteen years unexpired, who shall plant, or cause to be planted, any timber trees of oak, ash, elm, beech, fir, alder, or any other trees, shall be entitled to cut, sell, and dispose of the same, or any part of the same, at any time during the term. |