102 THE 'FORESTS OF FRANCA. 



Grand-Masters or Forest-Masters shall be executed with out 

 prejudice to appeal both in civil and criminal cases, not- 

 withstanding that the judgment may afterwards be pro- 

 nounced incompetent, provided always that it be a sentence 

 which can be repaired in the definitive judgment* 



' 7. The definitive judgments and sentences of Grand- 

 Masters, which do not exceed two hundred livres in prin- 

 cipal, or twenty livres of interest, and those of Forest- 

 Masters not exceeding one hundred livres, or ten livres of 

 interest shall be executed provisionally, without prejudice 

 to appeal. 



'8. Appeals from the Gruyers and other officers of 

 private seigneurs, in regard to waters and forests, shall be 

 carried direct to the Courts of the Marble Table, and 

 execution stayed till their definitive sentence be given. 



' 9. All appeals from sentences given in Audiences, and 

 on minutes of visitations, and on reports, shall be pleaded 

 in the Audience of our Courts of the Marble Table ; but 

 if they embrace questions of law, the parties shall conclude 

 their appeal as in process by writing. 



' 10. We premit to parties at their choice to carry their 

 appeals by letter or by petition. 



CHAPTER XV. Of Fellings, ' Ballivage,' ' Martellage,' 

 and the Sale of Woods. 



' Art. 1. There can be no sale made in our forests, woods, 

 or thickets, excepting in accordance with the regulations 

 which shall be ordered in our Council, or in letters patent, 

 formally and duly registered in our Courts of Parliament 

 and Chambre des Comptes, under penalty of restitution of 

 four-fold the value of the wood sold, against the purchasers, 

 and against the officials ordering such sales, the loss of their 

 office. 



'2. The auction sales of our woods, whether timber, 

 forest, or coppice, can in future only be made by the 

 Grand-Masters, it being forbidden to the Officers of 

 Maitrises to acknowledge other persons, on pain of being 

 made responsible in their names. 



