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. TJ. S. v. Bromley, 12 How. 90, 13 L. Ed. 905; State V; School Fund Com’rs, 4 Kan. 268; Fletcher W Oliver, 25 Ark. 295. It also designates the Income of an individual or’private corporation. Public revenue. The revenue of the government of the state or nation; sometimes, perhaps, that of a municipality. Revenue law. Law which provides for the assessment and collection of a tax to defray the expenses of the government is a revenue law. Such legislation is commonly referred to under the general term “revenue measures,” and those measures include all the laws by which the government provides means for meeting its expenditures. Revenue side of the exchequer. That jurisdiction of the court of exchequer, or of the exchequer 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 linder the judicature act of 1875. Mozley & Whitley.