The Oil & Gas Lease in Canada : : Fourth Edition / / John Bishop Ballem.

Long recognized as the standard work on the topic, The Oil and Gas Lease in Canada discusses the legal document that determines the process by which a freehold mineral owner may grant oil companies the right to search for and produce minerals. Subjected to ongoing litigation and governmental regulat...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©2008
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (448 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Fourth Edition
  • Preface to the Third Edition
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • PART ONE: FUNCTION AND LEGAL CATEGORIZATION 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 Leases
  • 17. Accounting for Past Production
  • 18. Estoppel
  • 19. Litigating the Oil and Gas Lease
  • Index of Legislation
  • Index of Cases
  • Index of Secondary Authorities
  • General Index