Quotation sur Bava Batra 2:14

אִילָן שֶׁהוּא נוֹטֶה לִרְשׁוּת הָרַבִּים, קוֹצֵץ, כְּדֵי שֶׁיְּהֵא גָמָל עוֹבֵר וְרוֹכְבוֹ. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, גָּמָל טָעוּן פִּשְׁתָּן אוֹ חֲבִילֵי זְמוֹרוֹת. רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן אוֹמֵר, כָּל הָאִילָן כְּנֶגֶד הַמִּשְׁקֹלֶת, מִפְּנֵי הַטֻּמְאָה:

Si un arbre fait saillie dans le domaine public, il est coupé [c'est-à-dire que ses branches inférieures sont coupées] pour qu'un chameau et son cavalier puissent passer. R. Yehudah dit: Un chameau chargé de lin ou de bottes de tiges de vigne. [Et il n'est pas nécessaire de couper pour un chameau et son cavalier, car le cavalier peut se pencher et passer sous lui.] R. Shimon dit: Tout arbre (doit être coupé) contre un plomb contre l'impureté [c'est-à-dire, de peur que le les branches "tentent" au-dessus d'une olive de la taille d'un cadavre ou analogue et rendent impur le passage sous elles. La halakha est conforme au premier tanna seul.]

Jerusalem Talmud Bava Batra

MISHNAH: If a tree overhangs another’s field, he may cut it in the height of the plough’s ox-goad¹⁰⁴He may cut all overhanging branches of a fruit tree to the height of the ox-goad used with his plough.; carob tree and sycamore along the plumb line¹⁰⁵The owner of the field may cut these trees vertically at his property line.. Over an irrigated field along the plumb line¹⁰⁵The owner of the field may cut these trees vertically at his property line.. Abba Shaul says, every non-fruit-bearing tree along the plumb line¹⁰⁵The owner of the field may cut these trees vertically at his property line..
If a tree overhangs the public domain, one has to cut it so that a camel with a rider on it may pass; Rebbi Jehudah says, loaded with flax or bundles of vine cuttings¹⁰⁹They are very light and take up a large volume.. Rebbi Simeon says, any tree [must be cut] along the plumb line because of impurity^105,The owner of the field may cut these trees vertically at his property line.¹¹⁰R. Simeon essentially rejects the rabbis’ rule as following Gentile law (Corpus iuris, Decretum de arboribus caedendis requires that branches overhanging a public road must be cut up to a height of 15 Roman pedes, not quite 4.5 m.) He insists on a Jewish rationale. The impurity of the dead is transferred not only by touch but by being under one “tent” with a corpse. The crown of a tree forms such a “tent.” If the tree overhangs a road but grows inside a fence or wall which obstructs the view, a person passing under it could be inadvertentently become severely impure (cf. Nazir 7:3, Notes 163–164). Therefore, in the Land of Israel all overhangs have to be eliminated. He has no rules for other countries..

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