1. The upkeep, maintenance and repair of hedges, ditches and banks is usually the tenant’s obligation. In some cases the landlord must provide the necessary material for the work. Responsibility should be stated in the tenancy agreement.
  2. In most cases the tenant cannot remove hedges or fill in ditches without the consent of the landlord.
  3. All timber, trees and saplings belong to the landlord. All bushes belong to the tenant.
  4. Windfall timber belongs to the landlord, although in some districts local custom gives the tenant the right to the loppings.
  5. Any decayed or dead timber, or trees which are not timber when blown down belong to the tenant. Timber is defined as trees which are fit for building and repair of buildings. ‘Oak, ash and elm of seventy years growth are in all places timber, and other trees are timber by custom of the country’.

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