# Mineral question
**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/mineral-question/55658
**Category:** Ownership and Title
**Created:** [February 5, 2020, 1:19am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/mineral-question/55658 "2020-02-05T01:19:05Z")
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### Author:  [@Milkman](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Milkman)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2020, 1:19am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/mineral-question/55658/1 "2020-02-05T01:19:05Z")
I read on here a while back that if a landowner owns the sufferance rights, he could claim the mineral right if there had not been anything done at the courthouse on them in 10 plus years. I think there was a name of the law in Oklahoma. They gave it, but I cannot find anything about it now. Can anybody help?
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### Author:  [@M\_Barnes](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/M_Barnes)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2020, 1:56am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/mineral-question/55658/2 "2020-02-05T01:56:51Z")
It is called the Dormant Minerals act or something similar to that. . Not used very often in OK. The time frame varies from state to state.
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### Author:  [@TODD\_M\_Baker](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/TODD_M_Baker)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2020, 3:10am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/mineral-question/55658/3 "2020-02-05T03:10:02Z")
There is no dormant mineral law in Oklahoma.
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### Author:  [@M\_Barnes](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/M_Barnes)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/mineral-question/55658/4 "2020-02-05T14:41:11Z")
I had an attorney tell me there was an obscure one, but it is rarely used. He may have been referring to section 84-271 Conditions of escheat.
On the other hand, North Dakota, Ohio, and Louisiana and other states do use their law frequently.
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### Author:  [@tim\_dowd](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/tim_dowd)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2020, 5:59pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/mineral-question/55658/5 "2020-02-05T17:59:08Z")
Technically, you’re both correct. There is a statute where the attorney general (and I believe the district attorney) can foreclose on abandoned mineral interests. But, these are mineral interests where it is producing and money is held in suspense, and nobody seems to be claiming it. So, technically, it doesn’t apply to minerals that lay dormant.
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### Author:  [@Milkman](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Milkman)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/mineral-question/55658/6 "2020-02-07T00:45:31Z")
Does anybody know what (duhig) means on a title search?
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### Author:  [@TODD\_M\_Baker](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/TODD_M_Baker)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2020, 2:17am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/mineral-question/55658/7 "2020-02-07T02:17:20Z")
503, 144 S.W. 2d 878 (1940). The **Duhig rule** essentially states that, if both a grant and a reservation in a warranty deed cannot be given effect, then the reservation fails. Example: you own all surface and 1/2 of minerals and then convey surface, reserving 1/2 minerals, you reserved the 1/2 minerals you didn’t own, thereby leaving you with no interest in the minerals. This is a layman’s example.
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### Author:  [@system](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 5, 2020, 1:19am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/mineral-question/55658/8 "2020-05-05T01:19:10Z")
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