division order
division order. Oil & gas. A contract for the sale of oil or gas, specifying how the payments are to be distributed. • Royalty owners enter into division orders to sell minerals and to instruct how payments are to be made under a mineral lease. Working-interest owners also commonly sign division orders to instruct purchasers how payments are to be divided. [Cases: Mines and Minerals 79.1(3). C.J.S. Mines and Minerals § 294.]