Lease—Recording Assignment of Unrecorded Lease—Notice of Lease.—Where there had been several assignments of an unrecorded lease, the recordation of one of the intermediate assignments, the parties thereto being strangers to the record title, did not give notice of the contents of the lease.

Id.—Occupation by Sublessee—Constructive Notice of Terms of Sublease.—The open and notorious occupancy of oil lands by a sublessee thereof, claiming under a prior sublessee, is in itself sufficient to put on inquiry a corporation which subsequently purchased the land from the lessor and became the assignee of the rights of the intermediate lessees, and to charge it with constructive notice of the terms of the occupant’s sublease.

Id.—Attempt to Acquire Interest of Sublessee—Estoppel—Knowledge of Rights.—The fact that such corporation, almost contemporaneously with the assignment of the leasehold interest of the sublessee under whom such occupant claimed, endeavored to acquire his rights, does not operate to estop it from disputing such rights, but is evidence tending to show that it had actual knowledge of the ■terms of the occupant’s sublease.

Id.—Covenant for Renewal Runs With Land.—A covenant in a lease for a renewal thereof is for the direct benefit of the estate granted, within the meaning of section 1462 of the Civil Code, and runs with the land, and is binding upon one holding in privity of estate with the assignee of the lessor.

Id.—-Assignee of Lessee—Privity of Estate.—An assignee of the interest of a lessee, by accepting rent from the claimants under a sublease, becomes in privity of estate with them.

Id.—Acquisition of Estate of Lessee and Lessor After Subletting —Merger.—Where a lessee, after subletting, assigns to a grantee of the lessor, who collects from the sublessee the rent reserved in the sublease, such grantee comes in as an assignee of the reversion ' and not as the owner of the fee, there being no merger of the term of the original lessee in the estate of his lessor.

Id.—Failure to Demand Renewal of Lease After Lessor Obtained Estate of Lessee.—Where a lessee, having a right to a renewal of his lease upon making a demand therefor, executes a sublease, the terms of which did not require the sublessee to make such demand, and afterward assigns the lease to a grantee of the lessor, the sub-lessee does not forfeit his right to a renewal by a failure of the assignee of the lessee to demand a renewal from itself as owner of the fee.

Id.—Lease of Minino Ground by Corporation—Nonratification by Stockholders—Repeal of Statute Requiring Ratification—Subsequent' Acts Validating Lease—Estoppel.—A mining corporation, which executed a lease of a part of its mining ground at a time when the statute (Stats. 1897, p. 96), was in force requiring such a lease to be ratified by its stockholders, and which, after the repeal of such statute in 1905 (Stats. 1905, p. 74), treated the lease as valid and collected the rent reserved thereby for a period of years, is estopped to assert the invalidity of the lease due to its nonratification by the stockholders.