Co-author Gunner West

In In re Pearl Resources LLC, a Houston bankruptcy court rejected the Texas General Land Office’s attempt to partially terminate state oil and gas leases in Pecos County, despite finding the operator had breached offset well obligations.

The court describes the difference between “drilling operations” and “drilling”, explains when failure to

The category is “terms that confuse us” for one hundred dollars. Without resorting to your favorite legal dictionary or lawyer, explain the difference between a reservation and an exception in a Texas warranty deed. Stumped? Valence Operating v. Davidson answers the question.

The deeds

1956: Myrtle and grandson Jackie Ray Briggs conveyed to Edmond and Mildred

Co-author Gunner West

In Bush v. Yarborough Oil & Gas, LP a decades-old tax foreclosure judgment did not affect a previously severed mineral interest not owned by the delinquent taxpayer. The mineral owners were neither named nor served in the foreclosure suit, and the judgment and sheriff’s deed expressly limited the scope to the taxpayer’s