1996 US Code
Title 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL
Sec. 38 - Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent
View MetadataPublication Title | United States Code, 1994 Edition, Supplement 2, Title 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 30 - MINERAL LANDS AND MINING CHAPTER 2 - MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL Sec. 38 - Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent |
Contains | section 38 |
Date | 1996 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 6, 1997 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | R.S. §2332. |
Statutes at Large Reference | 16 Stat. 217 |
§38. Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent
Where such person or association, they and their grantors, have held and worked their claims for a period equal to the time prescribed by the statute of limitations for mining claims of the State or Territory where the same may be situated, evidence of such possession and working of the claims for such period shall be sufficient to establish a right to a patent thereto under sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, in the absence of any adverse claim; but nothing in such sections shall be deemed to impair any lien which may have attached in any way whatever to any mining claim or property thereto attached prior to the issuance of a patent.
(R.S. §2332.)
References in TextSections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, referred to in text, were in the original “this chapter”, meaning chapter 6 of title 32 of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. §§2318 to 2352.
CodificationR.S. §2332 derived from act July 9, 1870, ch. 235, §13, 16 Stat. 217.
Submerged Lands ActProvisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of Title 43, Public Lands.
Section Referred to in Other SectionsThis section is referred to in sections 24, 29, 33, 37, 39, 40, 42, 46, 47, 48, 102 of this title; title 16 section 460mm–1.
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