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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

21-0146, 2023 WL 2053175 (Tex. 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. In the 1920s—the time the deed at issue was executed—lessors commonly reserved a one-eighth royalty interest when they executed oil and gas leases.

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The Continued Struggle to Rebut the Van Dyke Presumption

Producer's Edge

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Navigator Group that courts interpreting “antiquated instruments” that use 1/8 within a double fraction must begin with the rebuttable presumption that 1/8 refers to the entire mineral estate, Texas courts have wrestled with its implications. Following the Texas Supreme Court’s ruling in Van Dyke v. ” Id.

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Texas Supreme Court Holds that References to “One-Eighth” in Old Oil and Gas Conveyances Presumptively Refer to the Entire Mineral Estate

The Continued Struggle to Rebut the Van Dyke Presumption

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