Royalty in United States
Royalty Definition
A payment reserved by the grantor of a patent, lease of a mine or similar right, and payable proportionately to the use made of the right by the grantee. 1 Exch. Div. 310. A payment reserved by the patentee of an article on giving a license, or by the author of a book in contracting for its publication or sale, proportionate to the sales under such license or contract. In Old English Law. Royal prerogatives.
Royalty in Foreign Legal Encyclopedias
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| Royalty | Royalty in the World Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Royalty | Royalty in the European Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Royalty | Royalty in the Asian Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Royalty | Royalty in the UK Legal Encyclopedia. |
| Royalty | Royalty in the Australian Legal Encyclopedia. |
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Browse the American Encyclopedia of Law for Royalty
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| Royalty | Royalty in the Family Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Royalty | Royalty in the IP Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Royalty | Royalty in the Commercial Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Royalty | Royalty in the Criminal Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Royalty | Royalty in the Antritrust Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Royalty | Royalty in the Bankruptcy Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Royalty | Royalty in the Constitutional Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Royalty | Royalty in the Tax Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Royalty | Royalty in the and Finance and Banking Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Royalty | Royalty in the Employment and Labor Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Royalty | Royalty in the Personal Injury and Tort Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
| Royalty | Royalty in the Environmental Law Portal of the American Encyclopedia of Law. |
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A payment reserved by the grantor of a patent, lease of a mine or similar right, and payable proportionately to the use made of the right by the grantee. 1 Exch. Div. 310. A payment reserved by the patentee of an article on giving a license, or by the author of a book in contracting for its publication or sale, proportionate to the sales under such license or contract. In Old English Law. Royal prerogatives.
Notice
This definition of Royalty is based on The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary. This entry needs to be proofread.
Royalty in the International Business Landscape
Definition of Royalty in the context of U.S. international business and public trade policy: Compensation paid by a licensee to a licensor.
Finding the law: Royalty in the U.S. Code
A collection of general and permanent laws relating to royalty, passed by the United States Congress, are organized by subject matter arrangements in the United States Code (U.S.C.; this label examines royalty topics), to make them easy to use (usually, organized by legal areas into Titles, Chapters and Sections). The platform provides introductory material to the U.S. Code, and cross references to case law. View the U.S. Code’s table of contents here.