KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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REVELS

REVERSIONARY

upon the account of the reve or bailiff of the manor. Spel. Feuds, c. 24.

on repayment of the money advanced to him, to be replaced in his right. Bell. REVERSIBLE ERROR. See ERROR. REVERSIO. L. Lat. In old English law. The returning of land to the donor. Fleta, lib. 3, cc. 10, 12. Reversio terrse est tanquant terra re vertens in possessione donatori, sive haeredibus suis post donum nnitum. Go. 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, com mencing in possession on the determination of a particular estate granted or devised. How. St. Mich. 1882, § 5528; Civ. Code Cal. § 768; 2 Bl. Comm. 175. And see Barber v. Brundage, 50 App. Div. 123, 63 N. Y. Supp. 347; Payn v. Beal, 4 Denio (N. Y.) 411; Powell v. Railroad Co., 16 Or. 33, 16 Pac. 863, 8 Am. St. Rep. 251; Wingate v. James, 121 Ind. 69, 22 N. E. 735; Byrne v. Weller, 61 Ark. 366, 33 S. W. 421. 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 determi nation of the granted interest or estate, return or revert to the grantor. This interest is what is called the "grantor's reversion," or, more properly, his "right of reverter," which, how ever, is deemed an actual estate in the land. Watk. Conv. 16. Where an estate is derived, by grant or other wise, out of a larger one, leaving in the original owner an ulterior estate immediately expectant on that which is so derived, the ulterior interest is called the "reversion." 1 Steph. Comm. 290. A reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate; while a remainder is an estate limited to take effect and be enjoyed after another estate is determin ed. Todd v. Jackson, 26 N. J. Law, 525. In personalty. "Reversion" is also used to denote a reversionary interest; e. g., an interest in personal property subject to the life interest of some other person. In Scotch law. A reversion is a right of redeeming landed property which has been either mortgaged or adjudicated to secure the payment of a debt. In the former case, the reversion is called "conventional;" in the latter case, it is called "legal;" and the period of seven years allowed for redemption Is called the "legal." Bell; Paterson. —Legal reversion. In Scotch law. The peri od within which a proprietor is at liberty to re deem land adjudged from him for debt.

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. In the civil law. The right of a vendor to reclaim goods sold out of the possession of the purchaser, where the price was not paid. Story, Confl. Laws, § 401. See Benedict v. Schaettle, 12 Ohio St. 520; Ellis v. Davis, 109 U. S. 485, 3 Sup. Ct. 327, 27 L. Ed. 1006. 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. U. S. v. Bromley, 12 How. 99, 13 L. Ed. 905; State v. School Fund Com'rs, 4 Kan. 268; Fletcher v. Oliver, 25 Ark. 295. It also designates the income of an indi vidual or private corporation. — Public revenue. The revenue of the gov ernment of the state or nation; sometimes, per haps, that of a municipality.— Revenue law. Any law which provides for the assessment and collection of a tax to defray the expenses of the government is a revenue law. Such legis lation is commonly referred to under the gener al term "revenue measures," and those measures include all the laws by which the government provides means for meeting its expenditures. Peyton v. Bliss, Woolw. 173, Fed. Gas. No. 11,- 055; The Nashville, 17 Fed. Cas. 1178; Twin Gity Nat. Bank v. Nebeker, 3 App. D. G. 190.— Revenue side of the exchequer. That juris diction of the court of exchequer, or of the ex chequer division of the high court of justice, by which it ascertains 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 judi cature act of 1875. Mozley & Whitley. 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. A term fre quently used in the judgments of an appel late court, in disposing of the case before it. It then means "to set aside; to annul; to va cate." Laithe v. McDonald, 7 Kan. 254. In Scotch law. The pro prietor of an estate who grants a wadset (or mortgage) of his lands, and who has a right, REVENDICATION. REVENUE. REVERSAL.. REVERSE, REVERSED. REVERSER.

REVERSIONARY.

That which Is to

be enjoyed in reversion. —Reversionary interest. The interest which a person has in the reversion of lands or other property. A right to the future enjoy-