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
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 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... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1890 - 778 pages
...substance the ninth section of the act of Congress of July 26, 1866, 14' Stat. 253, c. 262, provides : " Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manu-. facturing, or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and a. knowledged... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 804 pages
...was afterwards abandoned. Sect. 9 of the act of July 26, 1866 (14 Stat. 253) is as follows : — " That whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for miuing, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1156 pages
...such rights to the use of water as may have "vested and accrued" by priority of possession, and as are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and decisions of courts. Whether the defendant would have had the right to interfere with the plaintiff if, at the time of his... | |
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