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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1918


		288 FORESTRY. [ART. XXXIXA Miscellaneous. 1918, ch. 152. 16A. Every person, his aiders, abettors and counsellors, who shall wilfully, negligently, recklessly, wrongfully or maliciously enter upon lands or premises, not his or their own, and, without the permission or authority of the owners of said lands or premises, shall cut, burn or otherwise injure and destroy or cause or procure to be cut, burned or otherwise injured and destroyed, any merchantable trees or timber thereon, shall be liable to the party or parties injured or aggrieved thereby to an amount equal to double the value of such trees or timber so cut, burned, or otherwise injured or destroyed, such damages to be recovered in a civil action, as in any other case.

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