Texas Supreme Court Holds that References to “One-Eighth” in Old Oil and Gas Conveyances Presumptively Refer to the Entire Mineral Estate
The Energy Law
MARCH 7, 2023
17, 2023), in which it re-affirmed the axiomatic principle that a text retains the same meaning in the present day as when it was drafted. As the Court stated in its introductory sentence, “Only in a legal text could the formula ‘one-half of one-eighth’ mean anything other than one-sixteenth.” Dils Co. , 2d 904 (Tex. Dawkins , 483 S.W.3d
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