Acta Scientiarum Polonorum
Silvarum Colendarum Ratio et Industria Lignaria

Abstract The primary aim of the study was to determine methods of securing commercial timber sales transactions, used by forest inspectorates, to assess them in terms of the vindication process and to present new possibilities to secure sales transactions of goods and services. Thus, the aim of the investigations was to evaluate the cash-credit sales of timber, to describe forms of securing timber sales transactions used at present by forest inspectorates, to present the effect of individual security instruments on the vindication process of receivables from credit timber sales transactions concluded by forest inspector-ates. The investigations were conducted on the basis of the data (approx. 37 thousand transactions) collected in the Regional Directorate of State Forests in Poznań, which is one of the 17 directorates in Poland. At the time of the study the Directorate consisted of 26 forests inspectorates.