Glossary / Runsheet

Runsheet

A chronological summary of every document affecting title to a tract.

The working document of every curative landman. Each row is a recorded instrument — deed, lease, release, probate, AOH — annotated on the right with what it does to title and what gaps it leaves. The runsheet is the bridge between raw county records and a final title opinion.

A modern mineral runsheet covers minerals, surface, and any related instruments (rights of way, easements, liens) for a single tract over its entire recorded history — sometimes 150+ years of filings. Field landmen build runsheets from county clerk indexes; in-house teams use software that imports from existing data sources.

The single most common entry on a runsheet is a deed. The single most common GAP on a runsheet is a probate. probate.report's job is to make the gap easy to close.