 | United States - Mineral industries - 1991 - 344 pages
...complete development; and those conditions shall be fully expressed in the patent. (30 USC 43) SEC. 2339. Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same; and... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1923 - 944 pages
...acquired in the streams on the public lands, provided such claims were of a character which had been "recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of the courts."12 By the supplementary act of July 9, 1870, it was provided that all homestead and pre-emption... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 780 pages
...There Is nothing In said acts which grants to the owners of ditches on the public lands any right not " recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws and the decisions of the courts." Id. 8. IDEM. — Said acts do not authorize a person engaged In the construction of a... | |
 | Mary Catherine Miller - Law - 1993 - 280 pages
...26. Paul, M ining Frontiers, pp. 172-73. 27. Section 9 of this law pertained to water, as follows: "Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws and decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected... | |
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That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts,... 
