location

Site or place where something is or may be located. Act of locating.

See also situs

Mining law.

The act of appropriating a mining claim (parcel of land containing precious metal in its soil or rock) according to certain established rules. It usually consists in placing on the ground, in a conspicuous position, a notice setting forth the name of the locator, the fact that it is thus taken or located, with the requisite description of the extent and boundaries of the parcel. St. Louis Smelting, etc., Co. v. Kemp, 104 U.S. 649, 26 L.Ed. 875; Cole v. Ralph, 252 U.S. 286, 40 S.Ct. 321, 326, 64 L.Ed. 567.

In a secondary sense, the mining claim covered by a single act of appropriation or location. The act or series of acts whereby the boundaries of the claim are marked, etc., but it confers no right in the absence of discovery, both being essential to a valid claim. United States v. Mobley, D.C.Cal., 45 F.Supp. 407, 410.

See also mining claim

- mining location.

Real property.

The designation of the boundaries of a particular piece of land, either upon record or on the land itself. The finding, surveying and marking out the bounds of a particular tract of land or mining claims.

See locative calls