A compilation of Spanish and Mexican law, in relation to mines, and titles to real estate, in force in California, Texas and New Mexico
Subtitle: and in the territories acquired under the Louisiana and Florida treaties, when annexed to the United States : Containing a translation of the mining ordinances of New Spain, Gamboa's mining ordinances, the laws in relation to mines of gold, silver and quicksilver, contained in the "Novisma recopilacion," and the "Recopilacion de las Indias," and in the decrees of the cortes of Spain and of  Ferdinand VII, also of the laws and decrees of Mexico, on the subject of mines, colonization, and the right of foreigners to hold real estate : also, extracts from public documents, and form the laws of California, in relation to mines and mineral lands, together with a digest of the common law, on the subject of mines and mining
By: by John A. Rockwell
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Clark, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781584779803; 9781616190798
Subjects: Registration and transfer; Mining law; Land titles
Notes: "Foundations of Spanish, Mexican and Civil Law series."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Of the tribunal general of the miners of new Spain; title: Of the judges and deputies of the mining districts; title: Of juritdiction in mining causes; title: Of proceedings in ease of a vacancy or necessary absence of any of the judges of mines; title: Of the original ownership of mines ; of the grants to individuals ; and the duties to be paid by them for the same; title: Of the manner of acquiring mines, of new discoveries, registers of veins, and denouncements of mines, abandoned and lost; title: Of persons vim minj or may iiot discover. denounce, and wor/.- the mines; title: Chapter. viii of properties and intermediate spaces between properties, and of the measures in mines; title: Of working, supporting, and protecting tite mines; title: Of drains in mines; title: Of mines worked by companies; title: Of the laborert in mines, and in the works and establishment for the redaction of the metals; title: Of the supply of water and provisions to the mines; title: Of tite persons who reduce ores by agreement, and purchasers of the metals; title: Of ifte contractors for supplying mines, and of the dealers in the metals; title: Chapteb xvi of the fund and batik of supplies; title: Of surveyors for the operation of mines, and the reduction of the metals from ore; title: Of the education and instruction of young persons intended for the mining business; title: Of the privileges of the miners.