Is the lease still binding if the person signing the lease lost the property and the new owner purchased the land with mineral rights. The property sold at a sheriff sale.

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It did have this in the lease but they did not redeem it.
It was a foreclosure. It was purchased by the loan company and i purchased it from the loan company with all mineral. I can`t find where any were reserved But there was a lease signed by the people who lost the property.
I too have bought some foreclosed properties thinking I was getting minerals. WRONG! I thought by looking back 10 yrs. and not seeing any production everything was fine. WRONG. Mine were held by servitudes created by old old leases on several sections combined..
Jim or Jim,

I haven't looked at much of anything lately in Caddo. How can the sheriff
reserve mineral rights (unless it is adjudicated). I wouldn't think that the
sheriff would have any ownership interest whatsoever.
Jim,
I couldn't understand any LEGAL way that they could attempt it.

Bobi
If the property was mortgaged prior to the granting of the lease and the mortgage was not subordinated to the lease, the lease would be cancelled by the sale.
Sheriff's sales aren't necessarily foreclosures.
Some times property is ordered sold that is being partitioned by licitation.
http://real-estate.lawyers.com/Partition-Action.html
In Texas the mineral rights owned by the current owner would pass to the new owner in a Sheriffs sale. It would not cancel the lease, it would also pass to the new owner. The new owner should be entitled to any royalties the prior owner would have owned.
I bought land at a Sheriffs sale this week that has production on it, the property was sold for delinquent taxes. This lease would not be affected, would it?
Jim or Jim,

Wouldn't the previous owner of the adjudicated property still be able to redeem the property without losing their mineral rights?

My understanding (apt to be incorrect) is that any property acquired through adjudication or from an owner of tax title would have to have a suit to quiet tax title done in order to have clear title.
Jim,

I believe that the necessity of a suit to quiet tax title has a lot to do with (Mennonite). The owner may not have received proper notice.
Jim Krow,

In the past, Caddo has allowed adjudicated property to be redeemed almost indefinitely. I do not know how long they are letting it sit on the rolls as adjudicated before they sell it.

If they are selling it in the 1st year of adjudication, I would not believe that they have "good" title to sell it.

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