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- RS 31:20 · Authority to create mineral rights
- RS 31:21 · Nature of mineral servitude
- RS 31:22 · Certain rights and obligations of mineral servitude owner
- RS 31:23 · Right of servitude owner to operate; protection thereof
- RS 31:24 · Right of landowner to create mineral servitude
- RS 31:25 · Right of conditional landowner to create mineral servitude
- RS 31:26 · Usufructuary may not create mineral servitude
- RS 31:27 · Extinction of mineral servitudes
- RS 31:28 · Commencement of prescription of nonuse
- RS 31:29 · How prescription of nonuse is interrupted
- RS 31:30 · Date on which prescription interrupted and commenced anew
- RS 31:31 · Operations beyond prescriptive date; effect as interruption
- RS 31:32 · Interruption by additional operations
- RS 31:33 · Unit operations; effect as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:34 · Shut-in well; testing as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:35 · Unitization with tested shut-in well as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:36 · Production as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:37 · Unit production as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:38 · Good faith production for beneficial purpose required
- RS 31:39 · Attempt to restore or secure new production as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:40 · Interruption applicable to all minerals and modes of use
- RS 31:41 · Commencement of prescription anew following attempt to restore or secure new production
- RS 31:42 · By whom a mineral servitude may be used
- RS 31:43 · When a person is acting on behalf of servitude owner
- RS 31:44 · Adoption of operations by another
- RS 31:45 · Time within which adoption must be made
- RS 31:46 · Procedure for adoption
- RS 31:47 · Compulsory unit operations; adoption unnecessary
- RS 31:48 · Obligation of servitude owner to pay costs
- RS 31:49 · Unsuccessful operations; waiver of damages when adopted
- RS 31:50 · Adoption a matter of right
- RS 31:51 · Adoption when servitude under lease
- RS 31:52 · Right to claim production in absence of adoption
- RS 31:53 · Adoption possible only as specifically provided
- RS 31:54 · Interruption of prescription by acknowledgment; formal requirements
- RS 31:55 · Express intent required
- RS 31:56 · Contractual extension of servitude; requirements
- RS 31:57 · Extended servitude subject to rules of prescription
- RS 31:58 · Prescription not affected by minority or other disability
- RS 31:59 · Suspension of prescription by obstacle
- RS 31:60 · Suspension effective as to all minerals
- RS 31:61 · Compulsory unitization order not an obstacle; establishment of mining plan is an obstacle
- RS 31:62 · Mineral servitude indivisible except as specifically provided
- RS 31:63 · Presumption arising from separate description of tracts forming continuous body of land
- RS 31:64 · Presumption when servitudes created on noncontiguous tracts
- RS 31:65 · Division of servient estate not division of servitude
- RS 31:66 · Right of owners of contiguous tracts to create single servitude
- RS 31:67 · Right of co-owners to create single servitude in partition of land
- RS 31:68 · Effect of limitation of servitude rights to specified horizons or levels
- RS 31:69 · Effect of partial conveyances of servitude rights
- RS 31:70 · Effect of contracts for use or development of portion of servitude
- RS 31:71 · Partial unitization not a division
- RS 31:72 · Parties free to contract except as specifically limited
- RS 31:73 · Single servitude may not exist on noncontiguous tracts
- RS 31:74 · Right to fix term or shorten prescriptive period; effect of stipulation for prescriptive period greater than ten years
- RS 31:75 · Right to contract regarding rules of use
- RS 31:76 · Expectancy of extinction not an article of commerce
- RS 31:77 · Application of after-acquired title doctrine
- RS 31:78 · Prescription when after-acquired title doctrine applies; acquisition of outstanding servitude
- RS 31:79 · Prescription when after-acquired title doctrine applies; extinction of outstanding servitude
- RS 31:80 · Nature of mineral royalty
- RS 31:81 · Executive and operating rights not included
- RS 31:82 · Who may create mineral royalty
- RS 31:83 · Creation of mineral royalty by conditional owner
- RS 31:84 · Creation of mineral royalty by usufructuary
- RS 31:85 · Extinction of mineral royalties
- RS 31:86 · Commencement of prescription of nonuse
- RS 31:87 · Production as interruption of prescription; commencement of prescription anew
- RS 31:88 · Saved production sufficient to interrupt prescription
- RS 31:89 · Unit production as an interruption of prescription
- RS 31:90 · Tested shut-in well as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:91 · Unitization with tested shut-in well; effect as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:92 · Interruption applicable to all minerals
- RS 31:93 · Application of rules concerning acknowledgment and extension of prescription
- RS 31:94 · Acknowledgment by servitude owner of previously created mineral royalty
- RS 31:95 · Limited effect of acknowledgment of previously created royalty
- RS 31:96 · Previously created royalty; dependency on mineral servitude when acknowledged
- RS 31:97 · Prescription not affected by minority or other disability
- RS 31:98 · Suspension of prescription by obstacle
- RS 31:99 · Obstacle to production from servitude suspends prescription as to dependent royalty
- RS 31:100 · Suspension effective as to all minerals
- RS 31:101 · Mineral royalty indivisible except as specifically provided
- RS 31:102 · Rule regarding effect of partial conveyance; applicability to mineral royalty
- RS 31:103 · Freedom of contract; application of rules to mineral royalty
- RS 31:104 · Rules applicable to transactions involving outstanding servitudes; applicability to mineral royalties
- RS 31:105 · Nature of executive right
- RS 31:106 · Executive right a mineral right
- RS 31:107 · Interruption of prescription accruing against executive right
- RS 31:108 · Nature of executive and nonexecutive interests
- RS 31:109 · Obligation of owner of executive interest
- RS 31:110 · Lease in violation of obligation valid; right of nonexecutive to damages
- RS 31:111 · Effect of certain transactions involving executive right
- RS 31:112 · Right of nonexecutive to operate
- RS 31:113 · Executive right as appendage of another mineral right
- RS 31:114 · Nature of mineral lease; creation on noncontiguous tracts; effect of unit operations
- RS 31:115 · Requirement of term; limitation of continuation without drilling or mining operations or production
- RS 31:116 · Who may grant a mineral lease
- RS 31:117 · Granting of mineral lease by owner under conditional title
- RS 31:118 · Right of usufructuaries to lease
- RS 31:119 · Obligations of lessor