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  "heading": "Nonpayment of royalties; notice prerequisite to judicial demand",
  "text": "If a mineral lessor seeks relief for the failure of his lessee to make timely or proper payment of royalties, he must give his lessee written notice of such failure as a prerequisite to a judicial demand for damages or dissolution of the lease.",
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