advance royalty
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 303 U.S. 372 - Helvering v. Elbe Oil Land Development Co. · 1938Most cited · 280 citing opinions
Such payments are made to the recipient as a return upon his capital investment in the oil or gas in place.
How often courts cite the case defining “advance royalty”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “advance royalty” — 280 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.