274. OUR FORESTS AND WOODLANDS 
paid to the owner in possession; while under 
Scots law an heir in possession under an entail 
can cut the timber as long as his possession 
lasts. 
One advantage of copse over highwoods is 
that an annual fall can be provided for even 
in small woodlands. For working highwoods 
properly large areas are needed ; copsewoods, on 
the other hand, do not necessarily require large 
areas. On comparatively small tracts of two 
or three hundred acres the management can be 
so arranged as to yield small annual supplies 
of timber of various sizes at each fall of the 
underwood. Another advantage of copse, besides 
the comparatively small capital which it locks up, 
as compared with high timber forest, is that it is 
one of the most convenient forms of management 
under which an abnormally heavy fall of timber 
might perhaps be arranged for to meet the de- 
mand of death duties on a change of ownership in 
the estate. The utilisation of a large proportion, 
or even all, of the largest classes of standards 
would, although of course otherwise to be re- 
gretted and a cause of ultimate loss, not produce 
such disturbance in the general management as 
