Pastos, montes y aguas comunes: the common-use rule of the Laws of the Indies

One título of the Recopilación made the pastures, woods and waters of the Indies common by law, capped how much range one stockman could hold, turned harvested fields back into common pasture, freed the wild fruit woods to all from 1510, kept livestock out of Indian tilled land, and let Indians cut timber provided the woods could still grow. It also ordered that the order of water distribution the Indians had used be kept among the Spaniards, with the same natives taking part in it.