Wilkins, Terrance Germaine

How courts have described this case

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• noting that each provision of a deed must have meaning
• noting a “royalty” is generally defined as “the landowner’s share of production, free of expenses of production”
• requiring a holistic approach in ascertaining intent from the language of the deed
• in construing deeds, courts seek to harmonize and give effect to all provisions so none will be meaningless
• “We therefore must harmonize the language in the reservation based on the structure of the provision itself.”
• “the language quite plainly reserves 1/2 of the ‘[r]oyalty,’ which must refer to a royalty that could come into being at some point in the future”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).