What is COLLIERY? Definition of COLLIERY in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
This term is sufficiently wide to include all contiguous and connected veins and seams of coal which are worked as one concern, without regard to the closes or pieces of ground under which they are carried, and apparently also the engines and machinery in such contiguous and connected veins. MacSwin. Mines, 25. Carey v. Bright, 58 Pa. 85.
It includes every operation and work, both under and above ground, used or to be used to mine and prepare coal. Moore v. Stevens Coal Co., 315 Pa. 564, 173 A. 661, 662.
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