Abstract
This article analyses a specific case of social and political conflict over access to water in Higuera de la Sierra (Spain). The aim is to explore the relations between social groups and institutions under different political regimes and legal systems. Judicial, normative and oral sources were studied, along with bibliographies and press archives. This case study helps to understand the privatization and concentration of resources that characterized the Bourgeois Revolutions in 19th-century Spain. The research also sheds light on long-term consequences, especially in relation to the evolution of the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. Historical study of practices relevant to law and justice provides key knowledge about how the exercise of rights and the abuse of power have shaped and supported the contemporary agrarian social order.
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