extralateral

[ ek-struh-lat-er-uhl ]

adjective

1. of or relating to the right of a mine owner to the vein or lode of an ore when it extends under an adjacent mining property.

Word History and Origins

Origin of extralateral¹

extra- + lateral

Example Sentences

It then becomes necessary either to consolidate the ownerships or to go to the courts to see which claim has the extralateral rights.

From Project Gutenberg

Geologists and engineers understand more clearly than almost any other group the extent to which the complexities of nature vary from the conditions indicated in the simple wording of the law of extralateral rights.

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In the United States there is a wide use of geologists as witnesses in litigation affecting "extralateral rights."

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There are few mining districts where the vein conditions are so simple that no geological problems are left to be solved with relation to extralateral rights.

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