The Mining Reports: A Series Containing the Cases on the Law of Mines Found in the American and English Reports, Arranged Alphabetically by Subjects, with Notes and References, Volume 14Callaghan, 1888 - Mining law |
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Page 215 - All taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of subjects within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied' and collected under general laws...
Page 299 - Trial by jury shall be as heretofore, and the right thereof remain inviolate.
Page 125 - The General Assembly shall provide by law for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation ; and shall prescribe such regulations as shall secure a just valuation for taxation of all property, both real and personal, excepting such only for municipal, educational, literary, scientific, religious or charitable purposes, as may be specially exempted by law.
Page 478 - In form it is a fiction : in substance, a remedy to recover the value of personal chattels wrongfully converted by another to his own use.
Page 613 - Where a tunnel is run for the development of a vein or lode, or for the discovery of mines, the owners of such tunnel shall have the right of possession of all veins or lodes within three thousand feet from the face of such tunnel on the line thereof, not previously known to exist, discovered in such tunnel, to the same extent as if discovered from the surface...
Page 614 - ... the owners of such tunnel shall have the -right of possession of all veins or lodes within three thousand feet from the face of such tunnel on the line thereof, not previously known to exist, discovered in such tunnel, to the same extent as if discovered from the surface; and locations on the line of such tunnel of veins or lodes not appearing on the surface, made by other parties after the commencement of the tunnel, and while the same is being prosecuted with reasonable diligence, shall be...
Page 50 - That for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar cash in hand paid by the party of the second part to the party of the first part...
Page 218 - is at hand to explain its own meaning, and to express more clearly what has been obscurely expressed.
Page 321 - The court is further of opinion, that the Circuit court did not err in overruling the appellants' fourth exception, which is "to the allowance to Pierce for the amount of claim on George Earp of $2,780, upon the ground that- it was lost.
Page 58 - ... appeal to the Appellate Court for the Third District, where the judgment of the circuit court was affirmed.