Co-owners of the lessee's interest in a mineral lease may compel partition of their rights. Co-owners of a dependent right created by fewer than all of the co-owners of the lessee's interest cannot be compelled to partition their right.
La. R.S. 31:173
Mineral lessee's interest subject to partition; susceptibility of dependent rights to partition
Acts 1974, No. 50, §173, eff
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