Colliery
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
C0ALERY. A coal mine, coal pit, or place where coals are dug, with the engines and machinery used in 'discharging the water and raising the coal. Webster. Colliery is a collective compound including many things, and is not limited to the lease and fixtures of a tunnel, drift, shaft, slope,
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
This term is sufficiently wide to include all contiguous and connected veins and seams of coal which are worked as one concern, Without regard to the closes or === pieces of ground under which they are cartled, and apparently also the engines and machinery in such contiguous and connected