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Ridgefield Permian v. Diamondback: To what interest does a tax lien on a royalty reserved in an oil and gas lease attach?

OilandGasLawyer

Diamondback is another case arising out of the same tax foreclosure suit that was addressed in Mitchell v. MAP Resources , decided earlier this year by the Texas Supreme Court. In 1998, there was a small tax debt owed by Mr. Griffith and Albert on their royalty in the Meriwether lease. Ridgefield Permian v.

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Due Process and the No-Extrinsic-Evidence Rule: Challenges to Default Judgments When Service Was By Publication

OilandGasLawyer

Governmental entities in Texas like school districts, municipalities, hospital districts, and counties rely heavily on property taxes to finance their operations. When those property taxes are not paid, the taxing districts can file suit to foreclose their tax lien securing payment of the tax. Map Resources, Inc.

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Tax Prep for Law Firms: Year-End Tips

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7 tips for law firms to get ready for taxes Grab a holiday cookie and turn off your email notifications. Make a start on your year-end tax preparation with these seven steps. Make a start on your year-end tax preparation with these seven steps. One too many “Season’s Greetings” emails.

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Collateral Attacks on Tax Foreclosure Sales vs. Due Process — Two Cases from El Paso Court of Appeals

OilandGasLawyer

Both deal with a tax foreclosure on royalty interests. In the late 1990s an attorney and two mineral buyers got together and proposed to taxing districts to handle tax foreclosure suits for delinquent taxes on royalty interests. Map Resources , No. In Mitchell v.

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Mauritius dispatches: new corporate-friendly oil bill raises corruption and climate change concerns

JURIST

With the bill highlighting that any benefit that the State derives from a petroleum activity in the form of royalties or taxes would be determined not by any law or regulation and instead by the terms of the petroleum agreement, the lack of an open process is all the more disturbing.

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The Quest for a Meaningful Threshold of Invention: Atlantic Works v. Brady (1883)

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It creates a class of speculative schemers who make it their business to watch the advancing wave of improvement, and gather its foam in the form of patented monopolies, which enable them to lay a heavy tax upon the industry of the country, without contributing anything to the real advancement of the art. Atlantic Works v. Brady , 107 U.S.

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Get Ready for the Investigators

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