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Mineral Reservations and “Terminological Inexactitude”

By Charles Sartain on June 18, 2020
Posted in Contract Disputes, Land Titles, Title Issues
Co-author Robbie S. Morris

Channeling Winston Churchill, Gray Reed lawyer Robbie Morris urges caution for document writers and the clients who hire them: Drafting a deed is not, as many view it, a clerical undertaking.  Nothing can take the place of a diligent inquiry (by all parties and their counsel) into how the grantor derived…

Five Ways to Help Your Title Examiner – Second Half

By Charles Sartain on October 2, 2012
Posted in Land Titles

By Travis Booher – Aggie

For the sake of the game plan, let’s run with Charlie’s lame football analogies, and look at a few more objectives to keep in mind when preparing a runsheet. This time, attention will be on the good guys (the boys in maroon), rather than the gang in purple and gold.…

Five Ways You Can HelpYour Title Examiner Reach the Goal Line

By Charles Sartain on September 13, 2012
Posted in Land Titles

Written by Travis Booher

Disclaimer: Travis should not be blamed for the lame football analogies in this post. 

All too often landmen see the same old comments and the same old requirements in title opinions. I was recently asked for ways to decrease the number of comments and requirements and hence, the amount of curative…

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I have been helping clients of all types resolve their commercial disputes for most of my 35 years as a lawyer. Of the many industries in which I have worked, the energy business is the most fascinating…More

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