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Mineral land entry

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

Black's Law Dictionary

Filing a claim to hold or purchase lands belonging to the public domain and valuable for the minerals they contain, implying a prior discovery of ore and the opening of a mine.

U. S. v. Four Bottles Sour Mash Whisky (D. C.) 90 Fed. 720 .