Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Chapter 2 — Mineral Lands and Regulations in General
§ 53. Possessory actions for recovery of mining titles or for damages to such title
Statutory text
No possessory action between persons, in any court of the United States, for the recovery of any mining title, or for damages to any such title, shall be affected by the fact that the paramount title to the land in which such mines lie is in the United States; but each case shall be adjudged by the law of possession.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
(R.S. § 910.)
Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 53
(R.S. § 910.)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
(R.S. § 910.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
R.S. § 910 derived from act Feb. 27, 1865, ch. 64, § 9, 13 Stat. 441.
Section was formerly classified to section 690 of Title 28 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, by act June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 1, 62 Stat. 869.
Credits
(R.S. § 910.)