top lease

Oil & gas. A lease granted on property already subject to an oil-and-gas lease.

• Generally, any rights granted by a top lease are valid only if the existing lease ends. [Cases: Mines and Minerals 56. C.J.S. Mines and Minerals §§ 194–195, 233.]

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