OFFICE OF THE AmORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
DepartsItwLt or A&riaulture
kuafin ( Texas
Gentlaaerl:
Thh will oakubml
Bareaber I1zi,
1040, ~qrrea
mut -abtiaug the popes
PlllnlJwood or *t&T10a8le
the aauant noOO8sa
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p0gwfiment or Agrioultoxe, Pago S
that roar root wood ahould be IK);Paraoured
but wood
out In lengths or two fret, olxtoon inehea or ono
foot bo maaewd by throwing euoh wood irro&ularly
into a truok bod or box oontalnlag lM1 aubia toot,
oon#idoringthe amount or wood nooomrary to till
gii trrr whon thrown irregularlyinto 8arm to
.
"A 00x-dor r00r r00t wood raaed and ~011
ra& oord or wood oan bo out into one ?oot longthm,
itwill probabl not maeuro more than 80 to 90 oubia :"
?oot whan cask et Md roll atowod. If tho on. 00x4.
0r row r00t wood ranked and ~011 8t0woa ir cut into
two root longthr and throm irregularly into l
trPOk bod or box oontainlw lee oubio foot, it will
probably ?I11 tho truok hod or box hoapinq roll,
while i? tho lmo 0014 o? wood 1~ out into ODe tOOti
longthr and thrown irrogularl~into a truok bob
or box oontalningU8 oublo Soot, it will laak
BOVOrrbloubio root or ?lll~ same. St 18 thorn-
ton oloar to 606 that tho lon#h of wood and tho
waf it la plaood in a pi10 aaker a lot o? diifor-
MOO ln the amount or wood whloh a spa00 o? lS!Woub-
lo r00t will oontaiU..*
Artiolo 5954 or Vernon*6 Annotated civil Btatutoa,
a8 amndob, roads in part as iollowor
"Whonoveranr aommodity 10 sold by the oord
it rhall moan lee,oubia ioat, or tho OOntont8 o?
a epaoo eight foot long, ?our ?oet wide and four
toot hi&. . . ."
It would bo diffioult indood to emwer hour quea-
tion oategorioally. It la hi@ly improbable that any rUl0
o? thumb say now be #et forth that will &do your depart-
wnt in all 0r the many raot ilftuatlona it may ba ?aoed
with.
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Ar rtated in Broke v. State, 63 tex. Ur. B.
56, 204 8.W. 4301
*A 00x-dof wood Ia 'a rrasuxrmmt OS wood
oontdniag 122 oublo feet.' 9 070. 977. IC
16 othervire 6rpresma a8 a pile 0r WOoaeight
feet long, roar feet high, and r00r rota wia0,
whioh vould atie, of eouraa, le8 oubl0 foot.
II . The law a000 not roqulro that In
order ~o’attoextaln that a quentlt) of wood l,f
a oar6 it #hall ba piled eight foot long,:
~,?ourfeet high, and iour ieet rid., but my
other mamrermt or pile that ooatalnr a full
cord *ill be all that wae neoerrnry and woul6
be ru??iolent.@
It followe and you are adtired that tho only lo il
la a mr emmt
@TOU 0P
br tho rtatater for the ac+t6mitkatlon
whethelrany uonnt 0r 8 00-0ait oon~titotora 0024 is
vhether or not that oouodity WII1 fill the oontontr 0r a
rpaoo oontalniag 128 ~ublo foot. Xarofar as wood OF lag
other oamodit7 1~8oaorrned the law I.8rlleat a8 ts the
length %nto whioh It rhoula be out to detemlno uhethor
or not there is a oord. Wor doea tho law Foqutro that
rs;l pmtlmlax method b0 omployea, mob as plliag tbr
matsrlal in cltaokaeight feet long, lour fret wide, and
roux r60t high. hy mearurement or 8ean1 (ror example,
a wagon 80x1~ lug be employed if that in&xummitallt~ will
m6&6m P rrrli00~ 0r the 00mn0aitr.
Regardleslrof the lengths o? wood, when #old by
the oord, the law will require that the rtaakr or pilea be
~011 ranked an8 well stoweU, atherwioe, It oould not be
8earur6U. I?, ror example, the partksr oontraat Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion
Combined Opinion