Altman v. Blake

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• holding that “a mineral interest shorn of the executive right and the right to receive delay rentals remains an interest in the mineral fee.”
• recognizing that mineral deeds may define “participation” narrowly or broadly so as to include one or more of the five mineral rights
• recognizing that the language in a 1938 deed conveying “an undivided one-sixteenth (1/16) interest in and to all the oil, gas and other minerals in and under and that may be produced from” a tract referred to a mineral interest
• recognizing “five essential attributes of a severed mineral estate: (1) the right to develop (the right of ingress and egress), (2) the right to lease (the executive right), (3) the right to receive bonus payments, (4) the right to receive delay rentals, (5
• treating a conveyance of an undivided 1/16 “in and to all the oil, gas and other minerals in and under and that may be -7- 04-24-00382-CV produced” as mineral-interest language
• stating the five essential attributes of mineral estates are the rights to develop (right of ingress and egress), to lease (executive right), to receive bonus payments, to receive delay rentals, and to receive royalty payments

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