Note 76a — THE MINERS LAWES AND PRIVILLEDGES.

The proportion of Profit to the Crown is found to vary in different places, sometimes being no more than a tenth part or even a twentieth or less. These provisions respecting the right of the lord of the soil, whether king or subject, have their counterparts in the old summary laws, which regulate the participation of the landowner in the discovery and working of mines; the droit de partage, or “mit-bauhalf,” &c. of the German miners.