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“Floating” Beats “Fixed ” in Texas Royalty Reservation

By Charles Sartain on September 28, 2023
Posted in Land Titles, Royalty Disputes

Co-author Katherine Sartain*

If you are scoring at home, count Permico Royalties LLC v. Barron Properties, Ltd., as a win for “floating” in the fixed-or-floating royalty battles. Permico, successor to grantors in a 1937 Deed for a tract in Ward County, argued that a mineral reservation was of a ½ floating royalty interest. Barron…

Beware Assignor: Own the Leases Before You Reserve the Override

By Charles Sartain on October 17, 2022
Posted in Land Titles, Title Issues

Let’s begin with a quiz. Armour purchases non-recourse mortgage notes, becoming a lienholder in 99 oil and gas leases and 13 wells; fails to record the transfer documents in the real property records; assigns the leases to Sandel, reserving an overriding royalty interest in 23 of the leases; and can’t show that the liens were…

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