But there were other customs of the Thembu clan, to whose royalty the Mandela family are related, which are said to have been adhered to.
If all goes to plan, Mr Levin may well spin some of these off into public companies in their own right in the next two years.Nothing if not ambitious, Mr Levin now plans to take Millennium closer to real medical products, whose rights, royalties and up-front payments are more lucrative.
Having conned, cajoled, and terrorized his way through the underworld, Beck ironically proved to be a perfect mark for Holloway House, his longtime publisher, whose miniscule royalty checks never matched their extraordinary sales figures.
It has come to this for the chairwoman of a powerful Senate committee, a former up-and-comer in her party and onetime favorite daughter in a state whose political royalty includes President Bill Clinton and former Senators J. William Fulbright and Dale Bumpers.
"I got the check out of the mail… I saw what the gross was," said Drake, a third-generation Pennsylvania farmer whose monthly royalty payments for the same amount of gas plummeted from $5,300 in July 2012 to $541 last February.
The difference between mobile and desktop ad revenue affects Pandora's costs in music royalties, whose rates are set by federal statute.
But now Mr Deby, whose government receives royalties and taxes from oil sales but has no stake in production, was going further - much further.
Thomas Mann was catty about him behind his back, calling him second-rate; as well one writer might say of another whose sales and royalties outstrip one's own.
At its peak in the 1980s and early 1990s the baseball card industry produced about $1 billion in domestic sales, compared with about $200 million today, according to the Major League Baseball Players Association, whose players receive royalties from the sales.
A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has dismissed a challenge to a $3.4 billion settlement between the federal government and hundreds of thousands of Native Americans whose land trust royalties were mismanaged by the Interior Department.
