Court of Exchequer

British  

noun

1. Also called: Exchequer.  (formerly) an English civil court where Crown revenue cases were tried

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Example Sentences

At Ottawa last week the Court of Exchequer decided in his favor an international rowdedow involving a mere $22,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the Court of Exchequer Division on Monday, before Baron Huddleston and a special jury, the case of Whistler v.

From The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by Whistler, James McNeill

P. C. S. S. is desirous to know whether there be any record in the Court of Exchequer which bears out this singular statement.

From Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

The defendant appealed to the English House of Lords, who confirmed the judgment of the Irish Court of Exchequer, and ordered him to be put in possession of the disputed property.

From A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by McCarthy, Justin

On April 16th a motion was made in the Court of Exchequer for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection of the jury, and a rule nisi was granted. 

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles