 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1168 pages
...grounded In right reason, and Is supported by the authorities. "In grants of the character In question the title is Inchoate, and for the purpose of exploration only, until oil or gas is found in quantities warranting operation; and, while the courts manifest a disposition to... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1164 pages
...before the Circuit Court of Appeals. In treating of the nature of the lease, the court remarked that : "The title is inchoate, and for the purpose of exploration only until the oil Is found. If It Is not found, no estate vests in the lessee ; and, where the sole compensation... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1164 pages
...plaintiffs' fifth point, the court rightly held that the lease is not a grant of property in the oil, but merely a grant of possession for the purpose of searching for and procuring oil. No possession, as contemplated by the lease, was ever taken, and by their conduct plaintiffs abandoned... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1372 pages
...described, 'and also the said tract of land for the purpose of operating thereon for oil and gas.' By a course of decisions it is well settled in West...character is not a grant of property in the oil or in the laud, but merely a grant of possession for the purpose of searching for and producing oil." Huggins... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 640 pages
...plaintiffs' fifth point, the Court rightly held that the lease is not a grant of property in the oil, but merely a grant of possession for the purpose of searching for and procuring oil ; no possession, as contemplated by ihe lease, was ever taken, and by their conduct plaintiffs abandoned... | |
 | Frank Frederick Brightly - Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 1234 pages
...go upon the premises and operate for oil does not amount to a grant of property in the oil ; it is merely a grant of possession for the purpose of searching for and procuring oil. Barnhart v. Lochwood, 152 PS 82. II. Joint owners. 5. One of three joint owners of an oil lease is... | |
 | Daniel Moreau Barringer, John Stokes Adams - Mining law - 1897 - 1028 pages
...agrees to operate for oil aud pay one-eighth of the oil obtained, is not a grant of property in the oil, but merely a grant of possession for the purpose of searching for and procuring oil.1 Wettengel v. Gormley, 160, 559 (1894). G., who owned three contiguous farms, demised the entire... | |
 | George Bryan - Natural gas - 1898 - 558 pages
...the land. Barnhart vs. Lockwood, 152 Pa., 82 (1892): The lease is not a grant of property in the oil, but merely a grant of possession for the purpose of searching for and procuring oil. Glasgow vs. Chartiers Oil Co., Id., p. 48 : The legal effect of the agreement is to confer on the grantee... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 938 pages
...described, "and also the said tract of land for the purpose of operating thereon for oil and gas." By a course of decisions it is well settled in West...inchoate, and for the purpose of exploration only until the oil is found. If it is not found, no estate vests in the lessee: and, where the sole compensation... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 938 pages
...deserioed, "and also the said tract of land for the purpose of operating thereon for oil and gas." By a course of decisions it is well settled in West...Virginia that a lease of this character is not a grant ot property in the oil or in the land, but merely a grant of possession for the purpose of searching... | |
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By a course of decisions it is well settled in West Virginia that a lease of this character is not a grant of property in the oil or in the land, but merely a grant of possession for the purpose of searching for and procuring oil. 
