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A Lesson on How Not to Recover an NPRI in Texas

By Charles Sartain on July 29, 2025
Posted in Land Titles, Title Issues

Co-author Gunner West

It seems to be fairly well settled that you can’t use trespass-to-try-title to recover a nonpossessory royalty interest in Texas. What if you call the interest a “mineral interest stripped of every attribute except the right to receive royalty”? The result is the same; you can’t.

In Devon Energy Production Company, L.P. …

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