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LODE

TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.

This term, as used in the legislation of congress, is applicable to any zone or belt of mineralized rock lying within boundaries clearly separating it from the neighboring rock. It includes all deposits of mineral matter found through a mineralized zone or belt coming from the same source, impressed with the same forms, and appearing to have been created by the same processes. … [Read more...]

LOCATE

TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.

To ascertain and fix the position of something, the place of which was before uncertain or not manifest; as to locate the calls in a deed. To decide upon the place or direction to be occupied by something not yet in being; as to locate a road. … [Read more...]

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