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Title 4 - Actions and Remedies
Chapter 31 - Bad Faith Washout of Overriding Royalty Interest in Oil and Gas Lease
Section 31.001. Definitions
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TX Prop § 31.001 (2025)
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Sec. 31.001. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter:
(1) "Bad faith" means the conscious taking of action for the purpose of washing out all or part of an overriding royalty interest.
(2) "Washout" means the elimination or reduction of an overriding royalty interest in an oil and gas lease by the forfeiture or surrender of the oil and gas lease by a lessee or the lessee's successors or assigns and the subsequent reacquisition of a lease, or all or part of the mineral estate associated with the lease, by the lessee or the lessee's successors, assigns, contractors, or subsidiaries on all or part of the same land, free of the overriding royalty interest.
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 7 (H.B. 450), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2023.
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