Arkansas--Oil & Gas

摘要

Arkansas' rule regarding the interpretation of generic mineral grants and reservations is known as the Strohacker Doctrine. A nonspecific grant or reservation of "minerals" includes only those substances that, in legal and commercial usage, were generally regarded as minerals at the time and place of the grant or reservation. Thus, Arkansas has numerous reported decisions concerning whether oil and gas were "minerals" on a particular historical date, in a particular Arkansas county. Most of these involve the period from 1890 through 1910.