Hancock v. Butler (1858)
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Fasken Oil and Ranch, Ltd., Fasken Land and Minerals, Ltd., and Fasken Management, LLC, as General Partner of… (2026)
Id. 30 Id. 31 See Hancock v. Butler, 21 Tex. 804, 817 (1858) (stating that “forever” is “a word of time”); Forever, American Heritage Dictionary (1st ed. 1969) (“1.
“1. For everlasting time; eternally.”
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Mark J. Mueller v. James H. Davis, Individually, James H. Davis D/B/A J.D. Minerals, and JDMI, LLC (2015)
Hancock v. Butler, 21 Tex. 804, 806 (1858). 88.
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Ivarene and Victor Hosek v. Rosale Scott (2015)
Frost Nat’l Bank v. L & F Distribs, Ltd., 165 S.W.3d, 311 -12 (Tex. 2005); Hancock v. Butler, 21 Tex. 804, 806 (1858).
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Roger L. Graham, John B. Graham, John Regmund, Glenn Regmund, Wilma Regmund, Raellen Regmund Mattingly, Rayan… (2013)
See Luckel, 819 S.W.2d at 462 ; Hancock v. Butler, 21 Tex. 804, 816 (1858); Stewman Ranch, Inc. v. Double M.
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Graham v. Prochaska (2013)
See Luckel, 819 S.W.2d at 462 ; Hancock v. Butler, 21 Tex. 804, 816 (1858); Stewman Ranch, Inc. v. Double M.
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Toler v. Harbour (1979)
The rule is expressed in the landmark case of Hancock v. Butler, 21 Tex. 804, 808 (1858), from which the following, with omissions not material here, is quoted: ‘[W]hen a person takes an estate of freehold, legally, or equitably, under a . will . . . and in the same instrument, there is a limitation, by way of remainder, either with or without the interposition of another estate, of an interest of the same legal or equitable quality, to his heirs, or heirs of his body, as a …
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Kritser v. First National Bank of Amarillo (1971)
Hancock v. Butler, 21 Tex. 804, 812-813 (1858); Simonton v. White, 93 Tex. 50 , 53 S.W. 339 , 340-341 (1899); Finley v. Finley, 318 S.W.2d 478, 482 (Tex.Civ.App.—Eastland, 1958), error ref. n. r. e., 159 Tex. 582 , 324 S.W.2d 551, 552 (1959).
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Power v. Landram (1970)
Hassell v. Frey, 131 Tex. 578 , 117 S.W.2d 413 (1938); Federal Land Bank of Houston v. Little, 130 Tex. 173 , 107 S.W.2d 374 (1937); Calvery v. Calvery, 122 Tex. 204 , 55 S.W.2d 527 (1932); Wallace v. First National Bank, 120 Tex. 92 , 35 S.W.2d 1036 (1931); Hopkins v. Hopkins, 103 Tex. 15 , 122 S.W. 15 (1909); Simonton v. White, 93 Tex. 50 , 53 S.W. 339 (1899); Hancock v. Butler, 21 Tex. 804, 812 (1858); McMahan v. McMahan, 198 S.W. 354 (Tex.Civ.App.1917, writ ref.).
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Harrison v. San-Tex Lumber Co. (1970)
The rule was stated in the landmark case of Hancock v. Butler, 21 Tex. 804, 808 (1858) as follows: “* * * ‘when a person takes an estate of freehold, legally, or equitably, under a deed, will, or other writing, and in the same instrument, there is a limitation, by way of remainder, either with or without the interposition of another estate, of an interest of the same legal or equitable quality, to his heirs, or heirs of his body, as a class of persons, to take in succession,…
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Mobil Exploration & Producing U.S. Inc. v. McDonald (1991)
See Hancock v. Butler, 21 Tex. 804 (1858).
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Guy C. Fisher, Joe Fisher, Jr., Anne Winslow, Robert Dies, John Fisher and Kathleen Munger v. Leila Wynn, Mar… (2011)
See, e.g., Hancock v. Butler, 21 Tex. 804, 816 (1858); Arnold v. Ashbel Smith Land Co., 307 S.W.2d 818, 824 (Tex. Civ.