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What Is A Royalty Deed? A royalty deed gives its holder the right to receive a percentage of the profits from the sale of the minerals, if and when they are actually produced. This kind of legal document does not convey all of the mineral rights to the holder, only the right to receive royalties.

Transfer Your Mineral Rights Transfer by deed: You can sell your mineral rights to another person or company by deed. Transfer by will: You can specify who you want to inherit your mineral rights in your will. Transfer by lease: You can lease mineral rights to a third party through a lease agreement.

Like surface interests, mineral interests are passed down by inheritance. If there is a valid will, it controls who gets the property. If not, Texas laws of heirship controls.

Royalty interest in the oil and gas industry refers to ownership of a portion of a resource or the revenue it produces. A company or person that owns a royalty interest does not bear any operational costs needed to produce the resource, yet they still own a portion of the resource or revenue it produces.

The mineral rights, or interests, after separation from the surface, can be retained or sold as the landowner wishes through a mineral deed or a royalty deed. A deed is also known as a conveyance or reservation.

A quick overview of the differences between mineral rights and royalty interests shows a mineral interest is a real property interest obtained by severing the minerals from the surface and a royalty interest grants an owner a portion of the production revenue generated.

Mineral rights are a form of real property, and they are governed by the same principles of marital property law as other real estate. If the mineral rights were owned before marriage, they are separate property.

Mineral rights deeds are not the same as royalty deeds. Royalty deeds do not allow for surface access, or for the initiation of the extraction and sale of minerals. A royalty owner will only benefit economically if the mineral owner decides to produce and sell the minerals.

Mineral rights do not necessarily transfer with the property. Typically, a property conveyance (sale) transfers the rights of both the surface land and the minerals underneath until the mineral rights are sold. Mineral rights are conveyed — meaning transferred to a new owner — through a deed.

Mineral rights are the rights to minerals and natural resources that are under the surface of a piece of property. Usually, the owner of the surface estate owns the mineral rights under the property. However, under Texas law, those rights can be sold or leased to another party.