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Okla. Stat. tit. 60, § 6 (2026)

Land defined

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A. Land is the solid material of the earth, whatever may be the ingredients of which it is composed, whether soil, rock or other substance, and includes any pore space. B. 1. As used in this section, “pore space” means any interstitial space not occupied by soil or rock, within the solid material of the earth, and any cavity, hole, hollow or void space within the solid material of the earth. 2. As used in this section, pore space is real property and, until title to the pore space or rights, interests or estates in the pore space are separately transferred, pore space is property of the person or persons holding title to the land surface above it. 3. Notwithstanding the ownership of the pore space, nothing in this section shall alter or be construed to alter the ownership of, or rights associated with the oil or gas, as those terms are defined in Section 86.1 of Title 52 of the Oklahoma Statutes, that may be within the pore space. R.L.1910, § 6591. Amended by Laws 2011, c. 264, § 6.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 9 cases (5 in the last 5 years), 1956–2025 · leading case: Lewis v. Sac & Fox Tribe of Oklahoma Hous. Auth., 896 P.2d 503 (Okla. 1994).
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Lewis v. Sac & Fox Tribe of Oklahoma Hous. Auth., 896 P.2d 503 (Okla. 1994). “The words 'real property' are coextensive with lands, tenements and hereditaments.”
Boswell Energy Corp. v. Arrowhead Homes, Inc., 1999 OK CIV APP 36, 976 P.2d 1113. “2d 503, 515 ; 60 O.S.1991 § 6; 60 O.S.1991 § 64. Therefore, with the use of the word “land” in the legal description, the entire fee was being conveyed, unless “limited by express words.”
Compass Bank ex rel. Guar. Bank, FSB v. North Am. Petroleum Corp. USA (In re North Am. Petroleum Corp. USA), 445 B.R. 382 (Bankr. D. Del. 2011). “31, 2008) ("60 O.S. § 6 provides that 'a thing is deemed to be affixed to land when it is .”
Meriwether v. Gulf Oil Corp., 298 P.2d 758 (Okla. 1956). “If the statute authorized the State to take fee title to the surface of the land, which title defendant concedes the State did acquire, it would logically follow that it could take a fee simple title to the whole estate in the land, there being no title restriction or…”
Question Submitted by: The Honorable Dave Rader, Oklahoma Senate, Dist. 39, 2025 OK AG 14 (Okla. Att’y Gen. 2025). · cites it 12× “" 60 O.S.2021, § 6 ¶2 When mineral rights are held in trust by the United States for the benefit of an Indian tribe, we must apply "the general rule that statutes passed for the benefit of dependent Indian tribes .”
Question Submitted by: The Honorable Brent Howard, Oklahoma State Senate, Dist. 38, 2024 OK AG 2 (Okla. Att’y Gen. 2024). · cites it 3× “Further, until 2011, title 60 of the Oklahoma Statutes defined "land" as "the solid material of the earth, whatever may be the ingredients of which it is composed, whether soil, rock or other substance.”
Question Submitted by: The Honorable Brent Howard, Oklahoma State Senate, Dist. 38, 2024 OK AG 2 (Okla. Att’y Gen. 2024). · cites it 3× “Further, until 2011, title 60 of the Oklahoma Statutes defined "land" as "the solid material of the earth, whatever may be the ingredients of which it is composed, whether soil, rock or other substance.”
Question Submitted by: The Honorable Brent Howard, Oklahoma State Senate, Dist. 38, 2024 OK AG 2 (Okla. Att’y Gen. 2024). · cites it 3× “Further, until 2011, title 60 of the Oklahoma Statutes defined "land" as "the solid material of the earth, whatever may be the ingredients of which it is composed, whether soil, rock or other substance.”
Question Submitted by: The Honorable Brent Howard, Oklahoma State Senate, Dist. 38, 2024 OK AG 2 (Okla. Att’y Gen. 2024). · cites it 3× “Further, until 2011, title 60 of the Oklahoma Statutes defined "land" as "the solid material of the earth, whatever may be the ingredients of which it is composed, whether soil, rock or other substance.”
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