 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
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 1164 pages
...the local federal courts, In 1863 congress passed the following act (14 Stat. 253; Rev. St. g 2330): "Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights «hall be maintained and protected in the same, and the right of way for the construction of ditches... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 1166 pages
...legislation of congress— Fit -at, by the act of July 26, 1866, which declares, in its ninth section, "that whenever, by priority of possession, rights...recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1006 pages
...as such, the act of congress of July 26, 1866, was involved. The ninth section of this act declares that " whenever, by priority of possession, rights...recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 790 pages
...section of the act of Congress, c. 262, approved July 26, 1866, 14 Stat. 253, which reads as follows : "Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws and the deciOpinion of the Court. sions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall... | |
 | George W. Spaulding - Land tenure - 1884 - 574 pages
...52; RS 2338. § 654. Vested Rights to Use of Water for Mining, etc. — Right of Way for Canala. — Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected... | |
 | Eugene Benjamin Wilson - Mine ventilation - 1884 - 748 pages
...conditions shall be fully expressed in the patent. (Act of Congress July 26, 1866, Ch. 202, § 5.) § 2339. Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the...recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1042 pages
...of congress of July 26, 1866, the ninth section of which contains this declaration: "That wherever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water...recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 968 pages
...owners over the public lands, and for other purposes," the ninth section of which reads as follows: "That whenever, by priority of possession, rights...manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued, ami the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 1134 pages
...and decisions of this state. And section 2339 of the Revised Statutes of the United States declares that: "Whenever by priority of possession, rights...agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws and decisions of courts,... | |
 | Robert Stewart Morrison - Mining law - 1884 - 778 pages
...superior right. Statutory law controls local cnstoms. The act of Congress approved July 26, I866, provides "that whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, etc., purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local... | |
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