My family sold a family farm years ago.  However; we kept all our mineral rights.  Three years ago we signed a gas/oil contract with a gas and oil company.  They contacted us yesterday and said they want us to sign an amendment to our lease because they entered the wrong parcel numbers on our original lease.  They entered our Coal tax parcel numbers instead of our gas parcel numbers.  They haven't drilled on the farm yet.  Should we sign the amendment?  I would like to renegotiate for a better contract but I don't know the legalities of parcel number errors on a contract. 

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I've never seen this before but if you signed the lease before knowing the full value of the property, I would say it doesn't hurt to ask them. How long is your lease for, is it near the expiration and do they have any ability to extend it? Like I said, I would ask them under the premise that the original lease is under valued and ultimately, I would try to find a good lawyer in your area to handle negotiations of the amendment as well as any re-negotiation.

Be very carefull,  don't sign anything unless it benefits you.  Your signature is worth a lot of money.

Does your lease say you'll sign any documents needed to fully execute and operate your lease?  Because if so a corrective lease or amendment is sort of something you already agreed to.  This is not uncommon.  Look at the language of the original lease and see what's required of you in these situations.

It's just to correct something that should have already been in the contract. There probably is a curative clause in your lease. They aren't going to give you money for correcting a typo.

 I agree with Chris, rarely does a court of law recognize a "typo" as a reason for negating an agreement. However by being diligent you have everything to gain and absolutely nothing to lose by checking it out first

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