Customary Land Law Explained
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 12/23/2013
- Oil and Gas
Customary land law typically refers to customary land tenure, a term indicating the relationship a society has created with respect to the use and ownership of real property. It often comes about through traditional practices within a ...
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What is Land Tenure – and How Can it Affect Your Property Rights?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 11/08/2013
- Oil and Gas
What Happens to Shared Mineral Rights After a Divorce?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 09/23/2013
- Real Estate
In energy-rich areas of the United States, divorcees frequently wrangle with the issue of shared mineral rights. While the legalities that surround these rights aren't fundamentally different than those that concern any other type of ...
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What is Mineral Royalties Fraud?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 09/11/2013
- Oil and Gas
In an age of rapid technological advancement and on-demand information, it might come as a shock that mineral royalties fraud persists. Despite commonsense financial regulations and careful monitoring of drilling, excavation and ...
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What are Fragmented or Severed Mineral Rights?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 09/06/2013
- Oil and Gas
Were you aware that the owner of the property rights for the surface of the ground is not necessarily the owner of the mineral rights beneath it? It all depends on how the property has been treated in the past or whether the owner of both ...
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Mineral Rights and Eminent Domain: What you Need to Know
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 08/30/2013
- Oil and Gas
Most property owners are aware of the basic concept of eminent domain. As a well-known legal framework with deep historical roots, eminent domain has provided governments with adequate grounds to appropriate and improve specific parcels of ...
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How are Pipeline Right of Way Agreements Structured?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 08/26/2013
- Oil and Gas
It used to be said the country ran on the railroads. These days a good portion of it runs on pipelines that carry gas, petroleum, and other products across the region. And like the railroads these pipeline operators need land to build, ...
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Oil & Gas Title Opinion FAQs
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 08/23/2013
- Real Estate
The real estate industry is built upon a strong legal foundation that relies heavily on a clear chain of ownership. While it's not difficult to establish the chain of ownership for a newly subdivided parcel, lands that have frequently ...
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Should You Lease or Purchase Mineral Rights?
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 08/07/2013
- Oil and Gas
If you own land in a region that's known to contain significant oil and gas resources, your parcel's subsurface mineral rights could be quite valuable. Since recent advances in drilling and exploration technologies have increased the value ...
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How to Prepare a Title Opinion
- CourthouseDirect.com Team
- 07/31/2013
- Real Estate
Title opinions are essential to the practice of residential and commercial real estate law. Among other things, they play a crucial role in the smooth transfer of property and the orderly assignation of mineral rights. Unfortunately, ...
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