As a legal document, the broad form deed severs a property into surface and mineral rights. This allows other individuals or organizations other than...

has been used in two activist campaigns. During a push to end the broad form deed, the grassroots organization, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, utilized...

development of commercial coal mining in the region. The creation of the broad form deed is also attributed to Mayo in the early 1900s. Mayo was born in Gulnare...

Stock-Raising Homestead Act (1916). A split estate is similar to the Broad Form Deed, a type of legal document created in the United States in the early...

the 1980s, KFTC was part of a campaign to end strip mining using the broad form deed and has since continued to provide support to the Appalachian region...

ruled in favor of the defendants because the Broad Form Deed did not recognize strip mining as a legal form of mining. According to the U.S. Census Bureau...

result of the merger of the former coalition of the same name. The Broad Front was formed as a result of the merger of left-wing political parties that aimed...

Storming Heaven. Henry Marcum refused to sign away mineral rights in a broad form deed. Ermel Justice preserves his mineral rights, but does sign away right-of-way...

mineral rights on April 16, 1993. The legal document referred to as the broad form deed previously severed property into surface and mineral rights. The amendment...

compensation for workers affected by black lung disease. He rallied against “broad form deeds,” which catered to out of state interests in mineral extraction to...