MINES de CHARBON de TERRE du PAYS de GIER / LOIRE (42). - Lot 908

MINES de CHARBON de TERRE du PAYS de GIER / LOIRE (42). MINES DE RIVES DE GIER, MINES du MOUILLON, DOMAINE DE PREFARNAY. 2 legal "précis" booklets from 1786 concerning the heirs of Sieur BONNAND regarding their claim to "one third of the production of extracted and to be extracted earth coals". - precise 6 typographed pages with vignette, woodcut, at head. Plaidoirie de l'avocat RIEUSSEC, exposé de la situation, énoncé des revendications et réponses. - précis with fine vignette at head, woodcut depicting justice with its scales amidst agricultural attributes by Brunet - Deliberated June 10, 1786. In addition to the presentation of the facts, considerations on mining, quarries and ores from a legal point of view according to ancient Roman law, development of interesting questions such as whether entry into religion can be equated with civil death - in which case one can claim if one is dead -; whether coal should be considered as property or as fruit; etc. Interesting legal rulings and interesting explanations of how to achieve them. on 11 pages, printed "à Lyon" by FAUCHEUX, quai & maison des Célestins.