or total cancellation or rescission, and this rule has been repeatedly asserted by this Court. Id. at 84, 76 S.E. at 124-25; accord Syl. Pt. 3, Core v. New York Petroleum Co., 52 W.Va. 276, 43 S.E. 128 (1903) (“Under such a lease, the remedy for a breach of an implied covenant is ordinarily not by way of forfeiture of the lease in whole or in part, but by an action for damages caused by such breach.”). The preference for legal remedies over equitable ones with regal'd to oil and gas lease disputes evolved as a natural result of the legal system “favor[ing] ... the vesting of estates” based upon the significant investment intrinsic to oil and gas exploration and development. United Fuel, 93 W.Va. at 655, 117 S.E. at 904; see Brewster v. Lanyon Zinc Co., 140 F. 801, 814 (8th Cir.1905) (<HOLDING>). Notwithstanding this leaning towards monetary
recognizing that the right of partition is an incident of common ownership recognizing large expense incident to the work of exploration and development holding single incident of sexual harassment was neither sufficiently pervasive nor severe to constitute a hostile work environment holding that the court had no obligation to search large record extract recognizing that  the work to be completed in accordance with the time limits of section 6 is the work for which lien enforcement is sought