11 S FORESTRY IN SPAi'tf. 



SECTION 6. JURISPRUDENCE AND POLITICAL ECONOMY. 



From the first it was considered desirable that in the 

 School of Forestry in Spain, as is the case in those of 

 many, if not also of all such schools in other countries, 

 the students should be instructed in the principles and in 

 the administration of law. In this, as in other departments 

 of study, the professors appear to prepare a programme of 

 what they consider desirable should be taught to the 

 students, which programme requires the approval and 

 sanction of the authorities of the school ; arid provision 

 was made for this being done in the earlier programmes of 

 those schools which were projected but were not established. 



The following is a summary of a handbook of study in this 

 department, issued in 1861, five-and-twenty years ago, 

 which shows what subjects were embraced in this depart- 

 ment of study at that time. It is entitled Lecciones de 

 Admmistraclon Forestal ; apuntes de la Clase Lectures or 

 Instruction in Forestal Administration; Notes for the use 

 of Students. 



It is intimated in the text that what is referred to in the 

 title is the administration of forest law; and under successive 

 heads there are indicated the subjects of successive lectures, 

 embracing : 1. Notions of property in general. 2. Appli- 

 cation of proprietorship to the territory of forests. 3. 

 Servitudes. 4. Duty of the State to maintain in favour of 

 itself the legal presumption of the proprietorship of forests 

 on disputed or doubtful property, at least till the contrary 

 be proved arid established. 5. That law-suits in regard to 

 forests should always be prosecuted in the most suitable 

 manner, and, if possible, in the regular administrative way, 

 so as not only to facilitate and expedite the suit, but to 

 ensure the execution of the judgment. 6. That the Govern- 

 ment administers of its own right the forests of the State ; 

 directs for public convenience the service or management 

 of forests belonging to communities and corporations ; and 

 in the forests belonging to private proprietors exercises 



