Egeland v. Continental Resources, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that in order to overcome presumption that oil and gas leases are indivisible, a Pugh clause must divide the lease “clearly and explicitly”
• noting that a court must interpret a contract so as “to determine the true intent of the parties”
• “A contract must be read and considered in its entirety so that all of its provisions are taken into consideration to determine the true intent of the parties.”
• different rule of construction may apply to rights upon cessation of production
• “The majority rule is governmental pooling and unitization orders do not divide a lease, and production anywhere on the pooled acreage holds all leases that may be wholly or partly in the unit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).