One Camino Santa Maria
San Antonio, TX 78228-8602
United States
St. Mary's University School of Law
Pooling, royalty calculation, covenant, Wagner & Brown, Ltd. v. Sheppard, Ladd Petroleum Corp. v. Eagle Oil and Gas Co., cross conveyance, fee simple determinable, possibility of reverter, Hitzelberger v. Samedan Oil Corp., HECI Exploration Co. v. Neel, oil and gas lease, Texas Supreme Court, Minera
deed construction, document construction, mineral deeds, royalty deeds, Alford v. Krum, multiclause deeds, estate misconception, two-grant doctrine, Hoffman v. Magnolia Petroleum Co., expansion facet, Garret v. Dils Co., Luckel v. White, Jupiter Oil Co. v. Snow, subject-to lease, future-lease
President Nixon, United States Supreme Court, Federal Constitution, Speech or Debate Clause, Montesquieu, separation of powers, Nixon v. Fitzgerald, Halperin v. Kissinger, qualified immunity, absolute immunity, objective standard, subjective standard, constitutional rights, executive branch
shale revolution, Marcellus Shale, “tight rock” shale formations, hydraulic fracturing, horizontal wells, Mississippi Lime formation, landmen, mineral titles, 1/8 landowner’s lease, estate misconception, deeds with conflicting fractions, mineral or royalty, rule against perpetuities
double fractions, restated fractions, conflicting fractions, mineral/royalty problem, one-sixteenth mineral interest, interpretation of multiclause deeds, Concord Oil v. Pennzoil Exploration & Production Co., the French Decision, National Ass’n v. Alexander, Temple-Inland Forest Products Corp. v. He
express oil and gas lease provisions, oil and gas lease, law of contracts, petroleum industry, lease clause interpretation, document interpretation, extrinsic evidence, royalty clause, gas royalty, terminating conditions, habendum clause, savings clauses, oil and gas law.
just compensation, Fifth Amendment, United States Supreme Court, Supreme Court, future interests, future interest cases, basis of just compensation, fairness and indemnity, fair-market-value standard, just compensation requirement, final protection against governmental abuses of private property
lease royalty clause, oil and gas lease, lessee, lessor, division-order statute, Supreme Court of Texas, royalty owners, oil and gas producers, Heritage Resources, Inc. v. NationsBank, Laura Burney
pragmatic approach, the Great Era, the Great Era of the Oil and Gas Industry, oil and gas jurisprudence, policy shift, new technologies, Ohio Oil Co. v. Indiana, 177 U.S.190 (1990), Railroad Commission v. Manziel, 361 S.W.2d 560 (Tex. 1962), need for a special jurisprudence, legislative resolutions
Abbot & Costello, Shwartz v. State, the state exception, Moser v. United Steel Corp. (Moser II), Dean Eugene Kuntz, Texas Supreme Court, surface destruction test, ordinary and natural meaning test, Friedman v. Texaco, the retroactive rule, Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Lindholm, royalty rules, oil, gas