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Tenant shall not cut or lop trees.
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31. No tenant of any lands holden under any lease or other contract of tenancy conferring an estate or interest less than a perpetual estate or interest, and made on or after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, shall cut down, top, lop, or grub any tree or wood growing on the said lands, unless such tenant shall be authorized thereto by covenant or agreement in the lease under which the lands are holden, if there be a lease, or unless such tenant shall have the previous consent in writing of the landlord competent to give such consent for that purpose, or shall have been lawfully required so to do, under a penalty not exceeding five pounds for each tree cut down, topped, lopped, or grubbed, to be recoverable by the immediate landlord by civil bill action in the county in which the tenant usually resides, or in the county in which the lands or any part of them are situate, at the election of the landlord: Provided, that nothing in this provision contained shall affect any right which any tenant may lawfully exercise or enjoy in respect of trees duly registered and belonging to such tenant, or in respect of willows, osiers, or sallows, under any Act in force in Ireland.
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