Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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commonly referred to under the general term "revenue measures," and those measures in clude all the laws by which the government provides means for meeting its expenditures. 1 Woolw. 173. REVENUE SIDE OF THE EX CHEQUER. That jurisdiction of the court of exchequer, or of the exchequer division of the high court of justice, by which it ascer tains and enforces the proprietary rights of the crown against the subjects of the realm. The practice in revenue cases is not affected by the orders and rules under the judicature act of 1875. Mozley & Whitley. REVERSAL. The annulling or making void a judgment on account of some error or irregularity. Usually spoken of the action of an appellate court. In international law. A declaration by which a sovereign promises that he will ob serve a certain order or certain conditions, which have been once established, notwith standing any changes that may happen to cause a deviation therefrom. Bouvier. REVERSE, REVERSED. A term fre quently used in the judgments of an appellate court, in disposing of the case before it. It then means "to set aside; to annul; to va cate." 7 Kan. 254. REVERSER. In Scotch law. The pro prietor of an estate who grants a wadset (or mortgage) of his lands, and who has a light, on repayment of the money advanced to him, to be replaced in his right. Bell. REVERSIO. L. Lat. In old English law. The returning of land to the donor. Fleta, lib. 3, cc. 10, 12. Reversio terras est tanquam terra re vertens in possessione donatori, sive hseredibus suis post donum finitum. Co. Litt. 142. A reversion of land is, as it were, the return of the land to the possession of the donor or his heirs after the termina tion of the estate granted. REVERSION. In real property law. A reversion is the residue of an estate left by operation of law in the grantor or his heirs, or in the heirs of a testator, commenc ing in possession on the determination of a particular estate granted or devised. How. St. Mich. 1882, § 5528; Civil Code Cal. § 768 2 Bl. Comm. 175. When a person has an interest in lands, and grants a portion of that interest, or, in other terms, a less estate than he has in himself, the possession of those lands shall, on the determination of the

REUS STIPULANDI. In the civil law. The party to a stipulation is so called if he is the creditor or obligee, and the debtor or obligor to such a stipulation is called the "reuspromittendi." Where there are sev eral creditors or several debtors jointly en titled to or jointly liable under a stipulation, they were respectively called "correi;" i. «., joint rei. Brown. REVE. In old English law. The bailiff of a franchise or manor; an officer in parish es within forests, who marks the commonable cattle. Cowell. REVE MOTE. In Saxon law. The court of the reve, reeve, or shire reeve. 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 6. REVEL. A criminal complaint charged that the defendant did "revel, quarrel, commit mischief, and otherwise behave in a disorderly manner." Held, that the word "revel" has a definite meaning; i. e., "to be have in a noisy, boisterous manner, like a bacchanal." 12 R. I. 309. REVELAND. The land which in Domes day is said to have been "thane-]and," and afterwards converted into "reveland." It seems to have been land which, having re verted to the king after the death of the thane, who had it for life, was not granted out to any by the king, but rested in charge upon the account of the reve or bailiff of the manor. Spel. Feuds, c. 24. REVELS. Sports of dancing, masking, etc., formerly used in princes' courts, the inns of court, and noblemen's houses, com monly performed by night. There was an officer to order and supervise them, who was entitled the "master of the revels." Cowell. REVENDICATION. In the civil law. The right of a vendor to reclaim goods sold out of the possession of the purchaser, wheie the price was not paid. Story, Confl. Laws, §401. REVENUE. As applied to the income of a government, this is a broad and general term, including all public moneys which the state collects and receives, from whatever source and in whatever manner. 22 Kan. 712. It also designates the income of an indi vidual or private corporation. REVENUE LAW. Any law which provides for the assessment and collection of a tax to defray the expenses of the govern ment is a revenue law. Such legislation is

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