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1922 R. H. Johnson et al. Business of Oil Production vii. 59 The general speculation in leases and royalties..has brought into play a parasitic type of trader who is usually called a ‘lease grafter’... Narrowly speaking, a ‘lease grafter’ is one who resorts to deceit in his operations.

1923 Federal Reporter 289 829 The plaintiff, through its vice president, Mr. Williams, and its lease and land man, Mr. Ford, agreed to withdraw from the association with the Allied Oil Corporation.]

1926 E. R. Lilley Oil Industry iv. 66 The ‘lease hound’, a man of wide acquaintance and a ‘good mixer’, is called upon to trace the ownership of the lease.

1933 Federal Reporter 2nd Ser. 66 865/2 In February, 1926, the Roxana Corporation..was acquiring a block of oil and gas leases in the vicinity of the Russell land. Kirkbride, its leaseman, understood that Benjamin owned the south half and Nathan the north half of the quarter section.

1943 Tax Court Memorandum (U.S.) II. 941/2 The lease brokers and lease hounds, as they are called, would descend upon them, and the first thing they knew the negroes had sold out and had nothing left.

1963 J. P. Getty My Life & Fortunes i. 19 The lobby, which was perpetually jammed with lease-brokers, wildcatters..and others directly or indirectly engaged in the hunt for oil, was the best oil-business information centre in Oklahoma.

1981 Oil & Gas Jrnl. 22 June 104/3 Farris..was an independent oil and gas leaseman during 1950–57, when he joined Graham–Michaelis Corp. as general manager of Sierra Petroleum Co. Inc.

1985 Washington Post 11 Jan. d10/2 Oil industry interest in exploring the rift remains intense. ‘Lease-hounds’ have been nailing down mineral rights across the region.