Quarry

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

A place whence stooes are dug for the purpose of being employed in building, making roads, and the like. When a farm is let with an open quarry, the tenant may, when not restrained by his contract, take out the stone; but he has no right to open new quarries. See "Waste.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

A place whence stones are dug for the purpose of being employed in building, making roads, and the like. In mining law it is said to be an open excavation where the works are visible at the surface. It is said to be derived from quadratarhis, a stone-cutter or squarer. Bainbr. Mines 2. When a farm is let with an open quarry, the tenant may, when not restrained by liis contract, take out the stone; but he has no right to open new quarries. See Mines; Waste.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In mining law. An open excavation where the works are visible at the surface; a place or pit where stone, slate, marble, etc., is dug out or separated from a mass of rock. Bainb. Mines, 2. See Marvel v. Merritt, 116 U. S. 11, 6 Sup. Ch 207, 29 In Ed. 550; Murray v. Allred, 100 Tenn. 100, 43 S. W. 355, 39 In R. A. 249, 66 Am. St Rep. 740; Ruttledge v. Kress, 17 Pa. Super. Ct 495.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

See Land; Mines; Waste, 3. In the Latin of the later ages, quadratarius was a stone-squarer. The French quarriere, the original of quarry, meant the place where stone is cut into squares — a stone pit, referring to a place upon or above, not under, ground. When land is leased with an open quarry, the lessee, unless restrained by the contract, may remove the stone; but he has no right to open a new quarry.