Amber Oil and Gas Co. v. Bratton

How courts have described this case

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• optional language creates special limitation on the lease grant, and failure to pay the shut-in royalty when due results in termination
• “Because payment of a shut-in royalty is a substitute for production that keeps the lease in effect, failure to make a timely shut-in payment is the equivalent of cessation of production, and the lease automatically terminates.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).