«Comunidad de montes de "lzqui-bajo"» (Álava): Undivided pasture and forest, and liberal pattern of property (1833-1960)

Abstract

Property of «lzqui-bajo» forest community, located in the «Montaña Alavesa» (Basque Country), experienced small changes till the XIX century, undergoing from this moment a deep transfonnation. The undivided pasture and forest prevailing in the «Izqui» mountains, started its transfonnation process adapting the middle-class of land property whit the wooded division that took place on 1857-1861. Land division, made to avoid the «sale oftown lands», was done in the «Izqui» mountains on 1889. This land division set up the legal basis that revoke property undivision; however, the real application didn't take place till the middle of fitfties on the present century. These transfonnations finished on sixties with the dissolution of communal pasture that took shape with the enclosure of each property emerged from land division of previously communal forest.