Regulations last checked for updates: May 04, 2025

Title 43 - Public Lands: Interior last revised: Apr 16, 2025
§ 9239.6-1 - Turpentine.

For turpentine trespass in a State where there is no State law governing such trespass, the measure of damages will be as follows:

(a) Innocent trespass. Value of the gum and injury done to the trees. United States v. Taylor (35 Fed. 484).

(b) Willful trespass. Value of the product manufactured from the crude turpentine by the settler, or any person into whose possession same may have passed, without credit for labor bestowed on the turpentine by the wrongdoer. Union Naval Stores Co. v. United States (240 U.S. 284, 60 L. ed. 644).

authority: R.S. 2478 and 43 U.S.C. 1201.
source: 35 FR 9800, June 13, 1970, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 43 CFR 9239.6-1