Definition of DENOUNCEMENT in Black's Law Dictionary 4th Edition – Legal dictionary – Glossary of legal terms.
Definition of DENOUNCEMENT
In Mexican Mining Law
Denouncement is an application to the authorities for a grant of the right to work a mine, either on the ground of new discovery, or on the ground of forfeiture of the rights of a former owner, through abandonment or contravention of the mining law. Cent. Dict. See Castillero v. U. S., 2 Black, 109, 17 L.Ed. 360; Stewart v. King, 85 Or. 14, 166 P. 55, 56.
A "denouncement" is an application for the acquisition of land for mining purposes, under certain rules prescribed by Mexican laws. The application is called the "denouncement," and, when approved by the Mexican government, is called "concession" or "title," sometimes "patent." It is then a grant given by the government to use the land applied for, for the purpose of mining, and is * called the "title." Winningham v. Dyo, Tex.Com.App., 48 S.W.2d 600, 603.
In Spanish and Mexican Law
A judicial proceeding for the forfeiture of land held by an alien.
Though real property might be acquired by an alien in fraud of the law, —that is, without observing its requirements, —he nevertheless retained his right and title to it but was liable to be deprived of it by the proper proceeding of denouncement, which in its substantive characteristics was equivalent to the inquest of office found, at common law. De Merle v. Mathews, 26 Cal. 477.
The "denouncement of a new work" is a proceeding to obtain an order of court, in the nature of an injunction, against the construction of a new building or other work, which, if completed, would injuriously affect the plaintiff's property. Von Schmidt v. Huntington, 1 Cal. 55.
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