Mineral
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
The words "mines and minerals," in a deed, do not convey all the mineral kingdom, as distinguished from the animal or vegetable; nor are they restricted to any one of the subdivisions invented by chemists. A paint-stone, found below the earth, and distinct from the earth around it, and worked by the ordinary mining appliances, passes by these words.
Hartwell 0. Camman, 10 N. J. Eq. 128.
The term mineral products, in a revenue law, has been held to include coal-oil.
Thompson v. Noble, 3 Pittsb. 201.