The payment of delay rentals and the obligation to pay the owner of the soil one-sixteenth of the production and the payment of same when produced and the acceptance of same by the owner, shall be in lieu of all damages to the soil.
Tex. Nat. Res. Code § 52.182
DAMAGES TO SOIL
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Roddy Harrison, as Trustee of the Harrison Trust v. Rosetta Resources Operating, LP (2018)
Most recently applied in Roddy Harrison, as Trustee of the Harrison Trust v. Rosetta Resources Operating, LP (August 2018)
Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2461, ch. 871, art
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