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Economy, and the Public Accounts: French

Rest, a term applied both to the period of stock-taking and balancing of a merchant, and to the balance of undivided profit at that period. Retenue, a French term for the mint charge on coins. Revenue, that portion of wealth which the possessor may annually consume without injury to his permanent resources. It consists of the rents of land, the wages of labor, and the profits of stock.

Reversion, in Life Assurance, an annuity or sum which is not payable until some circumstances happen, or cease to happen, which are named in the agreement. Salvage, a recompense to those by whose means a ship or merchandise has been saved from shipwreck, fire, or capture.