Court of Exchequer

noun

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

Example Sentences

From 1830 to 1834 we find him occupying the chiefship of the Court of Exchequer.

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The proceedings brought against him in the court of exchequer were stayed by a royal warrant; and in a statement published by him he proved that in the delays in making up the accounts of his office he had transgressed neither the law nor the custom of the time.

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Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.

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A book compiled in the twelfth century, containing a description of the court of exchequer of England, an official statement of the revenues of the crown, etc.

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Five hundred men was imprisoned for selling it; I was twice imprisoned, and the circulation of the paper, thus prosecuted, more than paid my losses; but at last, in the Court of Exchequer, before Lord Lyndhurst, the Jury found a verdict in my favour, for I convinced the Jury that the publication was one which was not against the law.

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