Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C. v. Buell (Slip Opinion)

{¶ 1} In this case, which is before us on the certification of state-law questions by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, we address whether, under Ohio’s Dormant Mineral Act, codified in R.C. 5301.56, a recorded lease of severed oil and gas rights, or the expiration of that *491lease, is a title transaction that constitutes a saving event to preclude the severed mineral rights from being deemed abandoned and reunited with the rights to the corresponding surface property. We hold that a recorded oil and gas lease is a title transaction under R.C.…