Are You Using the Wrong Notary Certificate on Your Affidavits?: Navigating Acknowledgment vs. Jurat in Oil and Gas Documentation As professionals in the oil and gas industry, the precision of legal documentation is paramount. Whether it’s land rights, oil and gas leases, various industry agreements, or compliance affidavits, each document requires specific notarial acts […]
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The 17 Laws of the Oil & Gas Title: Marketable Title
We’ll be posting new installments in this series from time to time (but not in any particular order). Hope you enjoy—and please leave your comments, good or bad, for how we can improve this series. Thanks, Lance! Remember folks a Marketable Title doesn’t mean free from all possible defects. Patton and Palomar on Land Titles […]
Title Law No. 13: “Safe Business Risk”—is an Oxymoron!
“Safe Business Risk”—is an Oxymoron! For all of those “not so fearless” title examiners out there—here is lucky No. 13. CYA!
A Warranty Deed— “in Poetry”, Is this a valid conveyance?
This old Deed covers land in the Illinois Basin, what do you think–is it valid or not? DEED I, J. Henry Shaw, the grantor herein, Who live at Beardstown the county within, For seven hundred dollars to me paid today By Charles E. Wyman, do sell and convey Lot two (2) in block forty (40), […]
Title Law No. 5: Weakest Link
The Law of the Title (Part 1): Title is only as Strong as its Weakest Link
Title Law No. 8: Pick a Side on a Title Issue (then explain why)!
For Title Law No. 8—you should generally take the side that is easiest to defend when writing title Objections (even though that may not be the side you think ultimately wins the day given additional title evidence).
