Terms Used In New York Laws > Public Lands > Article 7 - Mines, Minerals and Metals

• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Filer: means the person filing a notice of discovery, or his heirs, distributees, representatives or successors in interest. See N.Y. Public Lands Law 80
• Gold mine: means a mineral deposit in which the total sales value of the gold is more than fifty per centum of the value of all other minerals associated or occurring with the gold in the mine. See N.Y. Public Lands Law 80
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Minerals: means all minerals and rocks, more particularly any inorganic substance which can be extracted from the earth, excepting gas, oil and water. See N.Y. Public Lands Law 80
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Silver mine: means a mineral deposit in which the total sales value of the silver is more than fifty per centum of the value of all other minerals associated or occurring with the silver in the mine. See N.Y. Public Lands Law 80
• State lands: means all lands now or hereafter owned by the state of New York except lands in the forest preserve as defined by § 63 of the conservation law. See N.Y. Public Lands Law 80