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 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 expendifures.

Peyton v. Bliss, Woolw. 173, Fed. Cas. No. 11,055; The Nashville, 17 Fed. Cas. 1178; Twin City Nat. Bank v. Nebeker, 3 App. D. C. 190.