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timber licence Lumbering 
a licence permitting one to cut timber on a timber limit, on payment of certain dues to the government.
See also: timber limit timber rights
- 1936 To Crown timber dues was added "timber licence," "timber-limit," or "timber-berth" arrangement, by which lumbermen obtained the sole right to cut on specified areas for a given time.
- 1965 Amendments made to the Forest Act in 1965 now permit: Application of the cost of timber sales to the timber licence as a whole, or to cutting permits issued pursuant to the licence.
- 1936 To Crown timber dues was added "timber licence," "timber-limit," or "timber-berth" arrangement, by which lumbermen obtained the sole right to cut on specified areas for a given time.