Patrick v. Barrett

How courts have described this case

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• stating that an exception in a deed does not pass title itself but operates to prevent the excepted interest from passing while a reservation is made in favor of the grantor who 8 reserves for himself royalty interests, mineral rights, and other rights
• owner of fractional mineral interest is generally entitled to a proportionate share of the landowner’s royalty
• owner of fractional mineral interest is generally entitled to a proportionate share of the landowner’s royalty
• “It is manifest that an exception does not pass title itself; instead it operates to prevent the excepted interest from passing at all.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).