DIVISION ORDER

division order.Oil & gas. A contract for the sale of oil or gas, specifying  how the  payments

are to be  distributed. • Royalty  owners enter into  division  orders to sell minerals and to  instruct

how payments are to be made under a mineral lease. Working-interest owners also commonly sign

division orders to instruct purchasers how payments are to be divided. [Cases: Mines and Minerals

79.1(3). C.J.S. Mines and Minerals § 294.] [Blacks Law 8th]