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Mill

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

1. A machine or engine for grinding, sawing, manufacturing, etc.; also the building containing such machinery. State v. Livermore, 44 N. H. 387; Lambom v. Bell, 18 Colo. 346, 32 Pac. 989, 20 In R. A. 241; Home Mut. Ins. Co., v. Roe, 71 Wis. 33, 36 N. W. 594; Halpin v. Insurance Co., 120 N. Y. 73, 23 N. E. 989; Southwest Missouri Light Co., v. Scheurieh, 174 Mo. 235, 73 S. W. 496.
-Mill-holms. Low meadows and other fields In the vicinity of mills, or watery places about Mill-dams. Enc. Lond.

Mill privilege. the right of A riparian proprietor to erect A Mill on his land and to use the power furnished by the stream for the purpose of operating the mill, with due regard to the rights of other owners above and below him on the stream. Gould v. Boston Duck Co., 13 Gray (Mass.) 452; Hutchinson v. Chase, 39 Me. 511, 63 Am. Dec. 645;' Moore v. Fletcher, 16 Me. 65, 33 Am. Dec. 633; Whitney v. Wheeler Cotton Mills, 151 Mass. 396, 24 N. E. 774, 7 In R. A. 613.

Mill site. In general, a parcel of land on or contiguous to a water-course, suitable for the erection and operation of a mill operated by the power furnished by the stream. See Occum Co. v. Sprague Mfg. Co., 35 Conn. 512; Hasbrouct v. Vermilyea, 6 Cow. (N. Y.) 681; Mandeville v. Comstock, 9 Mich. 537. Specifically, in American mining law, a parcel of land constituting a portion of the public domain, located and claimed by the owner of a mining claim under the laws of the United States (or purchased by him from the government and patented,) not exceeding five acres in extent, not including any mineral land, not contiguous to the vein or lode, and occupied and used for the purpose of a mill or for other uses directly connected with the operation of the mine; or a similar parcel of land located and actually used for the purpose of a mill or reduction plant, but not by the owner of an existing mine nor in connection with any particular mining claim. See U. S. Rev. St. § 2337 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1436.)
2. An American money of account, of the value of the tenth part of a cent.