Part One: Fuction and Legal Catrgorization of the Oil and Gas Lease 1. Introduction 2. Function and History of the Oil and Gas Lease 3. Legal Category of the Oil and Gas Lease
Part Two: Entering into the Lease 4. Negotiations for and Capacity to Grant a Lease 5. Formation of the Lease
Part Three: The Lease 6. What the Lease Grants 7. The Habendum and Interpretation Clauses 8. Royalties, Suspended Well Payments, and Taxes 9. Drainage - Offset Drilling and Pooling 10. Unitization 11. Administrative and Procedural Provisions 12. Other Versions of the Clauses and Additional Provisions
Part Four: The Top Lease 13. Top Lease
Part Five: Involuntary Termination 14. Termination of the Lease 15. Deferring the Commitment to Drill 16. Termination of Productive or Potentially Productive Lease 17. Accounting for Past Production 18. Estoppel 19. Litigating the Oil and Gas Lease