Wyoming law
Real Estate Laws in Wyoming.
Wyoming real-estate law is governed principally by Title 34 of the Wyoming Statutes (Property, Conveyances, and Security Transactions). Wyoming is a title-theory state that uses mortgages as the standard residential security instrument; Wyoming permits both judicial foreclosure and non-judicial foreclosure by advertisement under Wyo. Stat. § 34-4-101 et seq. Wyoming has the highest percentage of federal land ownership of any state other than Nevada and Utah, producing distinctive federal-state-land practice. Wyoming's severed mineral estate is pervasive — surface, minerals, oil-and-gas, and water rights are routinely separately owned.
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Key Wyoming Statutes
Wyoming's principal real-property title — covering deeds, conveyances, mortgages, liens, and recording.
Wyoming permits non-judicial foreclosure of mortgages by advertisement, subject to statutory notice and publication requirements.
Wyoming's prior-appropriation water-rights system — administered by the State Engineer's Office. Water rights are appurtenant to land but separately adjudicated and may be severed, sold, or transferred.
Wyoming's surface-damage statute — requires oil-and-gas operators to negotiate in good faith with surface owners and to pay for actual damages when entering severed surface estates.
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