CLAIM JUMPING - Black's Law Dictionary

What is CLAIM JUMPING? Definition of CLAIM JUMPING in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.

The location on ground, knowing it to be excess ground, within the staked boundaries of another mining claim initiated prior thereto, because law governing manner of making location had not been complied with, so that location covers the workings of the prior locators. Nelson v. Smith, 42 Nev. 302, 176 P. 261, 265. 

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