150 W. Va. 136 - Avery v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “A deed conveying a tract of land of fifty acres ... which is subject to a provision in a prior partition deed which entitles the grantor and other owners of identical undivided interests in the oü and gas within and under all the tracts involved in the partition of a larger tract into five parcels, one of which is the fifty acre tract ... operates to grant and convey to the grantee in the such deed all of the right, title, interest and estate of the grantor in and to the oil and gas within and under the fifty acre tract, subject to the right of the owners of each of the four tracts to participate, to the extent of an undivided one-fifth interest, in the royalty when produced from the oil and gas within and under the fifty acre tract; but such deed does not grant and convey to the grantee any interest of the grant- or in and to the oil and gas within and under all or any of the other four tracts involved in the partition of the larger tract of land.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. McCall v. McCall