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,... The American Law Times Reports - Page 1451875Full view - About this book
| Gordon Morris Bakken - Law - 2000 - 590 pages
...the General Mining Law (Act of July 26, 1866, ch. 262, 14 Stat. 251). Section 9 of the act provided that "whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agriculture, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized... | |
| Donald J. Pisani - Nature - 2002 - 428 pages
...concerning water rights came in 1 866, when it deferred to the prevailing rules of the mining camps: "Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of [local] courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained... | |
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