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2010 Maine Code
TITLE 14: COURT PROCEDURE -- CIVIL
Chapter 739: WASTE AND TRESPASS TO REAL ESTATE
14 §7551. Treble damages for waste pending action
14 ME Rev Stat § 7551 (2010 through 124th Legis) What's This?
Part 7: PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS
Subchapter 2: TRESPASS
§7551. Treble damages for waste pending action
If, during the pendency of an action for the recovery of land, the tenant commits strip or waste by cutting, felling or destroying wood, timber, trees or poles standing thereon, he shall pay to the aggrieved party treble damages, to be recovered in a civil action.
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