§35-4-363. When standing timber and trees, etc., deemed chattels.

All standing timber and trees, and cutting rights with respect thereto, while owned by or mortgaged to anyone other than the owner of the land upon which such timber or trees are located, under or by virtue of any conveyance, mortgage or other instrument executed hereafter by the owner or owners of the entire fee simple title to the timber or trees or by the owner or owners of the full cutting rights with respect thereto shall be and shall be considered as chattels and not real property, or any interest therein, in all instances where the right or obligation to cut and remove such timber or trees is limited to a period not exceeding 10 years from the date of the conveyance, mortgage or other instrument transferring such timber or trees, or rights with respect thereto.

(Acts 1951, No. 575, p. 1027.)