Incorporating the details of the forest law and the relevant sections of the civil and criminal law, this volume is a study and documentation of the legal aspect of forest administration in British India. Provides a legal explanation of fundamental terms like ownership, property, owner's right, reserved forests, wood-rights, grazing-rights, etc. and discuss comprehensively the various laws related to forest ownership, constitution of forest estates, protection of forests, forest business, forest offences and forest administration. Also included is a special chapter dealing with the legal organization of the forest services in the colonial India. Besides Students and scholars of forest administration, the historians in general and law historians in particular should be interested in this classic work.