# Lease
**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lease/5748
**Category:** Law & Legal
**Created:** [December 30, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lease/5748 "2015-12-30T17:24:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Philip\_Semple](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Philip_Semple)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lease/5748/1 "2015-12-30T17:24:13Z")
My family received a check, for the first time, from an oil company for royalties left by our grandparents; according to the RRC the original lease was signed in the sixties. We were able to obtain the lease number from the tax records that the oil company was paying, but cannot find a copy in the county records. The oil company is not helpful in giving us a copy, we have requested a division order with no response yet. Can you advise on how to locate hard to find leases? We are in the state of Texas, Montgomery County.
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### Author:  [@Charles\_Cunningham](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Charles_Cunningham)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lease/5748/2 "2015-12-30T17:59:22Z")
Did your family inherit minerals or royalty? If your grandparents owned minerals and signed a lease, the lease would be in the County Clerkâs office. If they only owned royalties, they would not have signed a lease.
Most companies will not pay anyone without a signed Division Order.
An unemployed Landman would probably be your best investment on this. I am sure there are plenty around Conroe.
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### Author:  [@Philip\_Semple](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Philip_Semple)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lease/5748/3 "2015-12-30T18:43:07Z")
thanks we will explore your advise and keep you posted.
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### Author:  [@Charles\_Cunningham](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Charles_Cunningham)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lease/5748/4 "2015-12-30T20:02:44Z")
Wish you the best on this because I know that these issues can make one pull hair.
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### Author:  [@system](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 11:23pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/lease/5748/5 "2018-08-14T23:23:35Z")