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| LegalText | 30 U.S.C. § 38 | Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent | us | united_states_code | code_section | 30 | MINERAL LANDS AND MINING | 2 | MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL | 38 | 30 U.S.C. § 38 | current | 119-100 | 2026-06-26 | official | https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc30@119-100.zip | /us/usc/t30/s38 | data/legal/raw/us/code/title-30/usc30.xml | 1a1a7608928c9680279c05f4c845881ad4a47fb4bc169656709975d532e402ad | 355f8eb5c6ad5372de4a8e665d9ed90202d53d2aac19ac001d43948af4a4dd2f | 21ccd4bb5c2b31ba0702cf150d32dc9075b49016fda71786dbc15d337f8c6298 | 2026-07-04 | official |
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30 U.S.C. § 38 - Evidence of possession and work to establish right to patent
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Where such person or association, they and their grantors, have held and worked their claims for a period equal to the time prescribed by the statute of limitations for mining claims of the State or Territory where the same may be situated, evidence of such possession and working of the claims for such period shall be sufficient to establish a right to a patent thereto under sections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, in the absence of any adverse claim; but nothing in such sections shall be deemed to impair any lien which may have attached in any way whatever to any mining claim or property thereto attached prior to the issuance of a patent.
(R.S. § 2332.)
Notes
Editorial Notes
References in TextSections 21, 22 to 24, 26 to 28, 29, 30, 33 to 48, 50 to 52, 71 to 76 of this title and section 661 of title 43, referred to in text, were in the original “this chapter”, meaning chapter 6 of title 32 of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. §§ 2318 to 2352.
Codification R.S. § 2332 derived from act July 9, 1870, ch. 235, § 13, 16 Stat. 217.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Submerged Lands ActProvisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of Title 43, Public Lands.