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title: "30 U.S.C. § 708"
description: "Assignments; succession"
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title_number: 30
title_name: "MINERAL LANDS AND MINING"
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chapter_name: "CONVEYANCES TO OCCUPANTS OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS"
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# 30 U.S.C. § 708 - Assignments; succession

## Text

Rights and privileges to qualify as an applicant under this chapter shall not be assignable, but may pass through devise or descent.

(Pub. L. 87–851, § 8, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1128.)