ABSTRACT
Since the punishment could run to a long term of imprisonment, severity would lead people who otherwise followed an honest path on to the path of crime. The supreme penal code includes under theft of wood only the pilfering of hewn wood and the cutting of wood for the purpose of theft. The appropriation of wood from someone else. If felled wood is stolen from a third person, this felled wood is material that has been produced by the owner. Felled wood is wood that has been worked on. The gathering of fallen wood and the theft of wood are therefore essentially different things. Owing to the refunding of the value and in addition a special compensation for loss, the relation between the wood thief and the forest owner has ceased to exist, for the infringement of forest regulations has been completely abolished.
