This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol6 Real Property, Abstracts, Mining Law", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
Page 247.
1. Define a mine.
2. Define minerals.
3. Discuss the relation existing between mining law and the law of real property.
Page 248.
1. Compare the civil law rule and the common law rule as to the ownership of mines.
Pages 249=250.
1. What were "Royal Mines" ?
Pages 251=252.
1. What are the sources of mining law in this country?
Pages 253=254.
1. Give a synopsis of the provision of the Federal Statutes relative to the securing of mining claims.
Pages 255=257.
1. What are rules of mining districts and what force have they?
Page 259.
1. What mineral lands are open to location by citizens of the United States?
Pages 260=261. 1. What public lands cannot be located on?
Page 263.
1. Who may locate mining claims?
Page 264. 1. May claims be located by agents?
Page 265.
1. Define "lode".
2. Define a "vein".
Page 266.
1. What are the provisions of the Federal Statutes as to the location of a lode claim?
Page 267.
1. When is a vein or lode "in place"?
Page 268.
1. What "discovery" is necessary to serve as the basis for a location?
Page 269.
1. What is the extent of a locator's rights of possession and enjoyment?
Pages 270=271.
1. What is a tunnel claim?
Page 272.
1. What are placer claims?
2. How are they secured?
Pages 273=275. 1. How may coal land be acquired?
Page 277. 1. What are the formal parts of a location?
Page 278. 1. What is the proper form of location notice?
Page 279.
1. How must the notice be recorded?
Page 281. 1. What estate is secured by location?
Pages 282=283. 1. What are extra-lateral rights?
Page 284. 1. What rights are acquired under a defective location?
Page 285.
1. What are cross veins?
2. What are the respective rights of the parties in such cases?
Page 286.
1. How may a placer claim containing a lode be located?
Page 287. 1. What is abandonment of a claim?
Pages 288=289.
1. What is the result of the failure to perform annual labor?
Page 290.
1. How may a tenant in common forfeit his claim to a co-owner?
Page 291.
1. What are the two kinds of re-location?
Pages 293=295.
1. How may a mining patent be secured?
Pages 297=298.
1. What are the respective rights of the parties when the surface and mineral estates are severed?
 
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