| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Exchequer.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb exchequer.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (exchequer) | 1. To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer.[Websters]. 2. Base verb from the following inflections: exchequering, exchequered, exchequers, exchequerer, exchequerers, exchequeringly and exchequeredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "EXCHEQUERED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: exchequer
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| Noah Webster | [Noun] exchek'er. In England, an ancient court of record, intended principally to collect and superintend the king's debts and duties or revenues, and so called from scaccharium, or from the same root, denoting a checkered cloth, which covers the table. In consists of two divisions: the receipt of the exchequer, which manages the royal revenue; and the judicial part, which is divided into a court of law and a court of equity. The court of equity is held in the exchequer chamber, before the lord treasurer, the chancellor of the exchequer, the chief baron and three inferior barons. The common law court is held before the barons, without the treasurer or chancellor. Exchequer-bills, in England, bills for money, or promissory bills, issued from the exchequer; a species of paper currency emitted under the authority of the government and bearing interest.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Geography | Exchequer is geographically located in Zimbabwe. Its features include a mine(s) (a site where mineral ores are extracted from the ground by excavating surface pits and subterranean passages). Its geographic coordinates are 19.633333 degrees South latitude and 30.033333 degrees East longitude. (references) | ||
| Wikipedic | The Exchequer was that part of the government responsible for the management and collection of the royal revenues of the King of England. At an early stage (certainly by 1190) it split into a purely administrative part (the Exchequer of Receipt) which collected revenue, and a judicial part the Exchequer of Pleas, which was a court concerned with the King's revenue. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] (UK) the government department that collects and manages revenue. (references) | 2: [Noun] a treasury. (references) | 3: [Noun] an available fund of money, especially one for a specific purpose. (references) |
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Common Expressions: exchequer
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| Baron of the exchequer | The judges of the Court of Exchequer, one of the three ancient courts of England, now abolished. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Chancellor of the Exchequer | The British cabinet minister responsible for finance. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Court of Exchequer in Scotland | The Court of Exchequer was formerly a distinct part of the court system in Scotland. (references) | ||
| Dialogue concerning the Exchequer | The Dialogue concerning the Exchequer or Dialogus de Scaccario was an early Mediaeval treatise on the practice of the Exchequer. It was written by Henry FitzNigel, Henry II's treasurer. (references) | ||
| Exchequer of pleas | The Exchequer of Pleas or Exchequer was one of the three common-law courts of Medieval and Early Modern England. The term Exchequer is used where there is no possibility of confusion with the government department of the Exchequer of which the Exchequer of Pleas formed a part. (references) | ||
| Red book of the Exchequer | An ancient record in which are registered the names of all that held lands per baroniam in the time of Henry II. --Brande & C. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: exchequer
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| Barons of exchequer | Law | BARONS OF EXCHEQUER, Eng. law. The name given to the five judges of the Exchequer formerly these were barons of the realm, but now they are chosen from persons learned in the law. (references) | |
| Black book op the exchequer | Law | BLACK BOOK OP THE EXCHEQUER. The name of a book kept in the English exchequer, containing a collection of treaties) conventions, charters, &c. (references) | |
| Chancellor of the Exchequer | Literature | (The ). The minister of finance in the Privy Council. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Court of Exchequer | Law | COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Eng. law. A court of record anciently established for the trial of all matters relating to the revenue of the crown. Bac. Ab. h.t. (references) | |
| Exchequer bond | Finance | Is issued by the state, the interest being paid at issue in the form of discount; a short-term financial instrument which does not give any interest and is sold by the government at a discount through the central bank. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Exchequer chamber | Law | EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, Eng. law. A court erected by statute 31 Ed. III. c. 12, to determine causes upon writs of error from the common law side of the court of exchequer. 3 Bl. Com. 55. Another court of exchequer chamber was created by the stat. 27 El. c. 8, consisting of the justices of the common bench, and the barons of the exchequer. It has authority to examine by writ of err6r the proceedings of the king's bench, not so generally as that erected by the statute of Edw. III., but in certain enumerated actions. (references) | |
| Exchequer Courts Reports | Law | Canadian Admiralty court reports of first instance and in appeal in Canada beginning in 1875 and ending in 1970 upon being replaced by Federal Court Reports. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Exchequer R | Law | EXCHEQUER R, Eng. law. 1. An ancient court of record set up by William the Conqueror. It is called exchequer from the chequered cloth, resembling a chessboard, which covers the table there. 3 Bl. Com. 45. It consists of two divisions; the receipt of the exchequer, which manages the royal revenue; and the court, or judicial part of it, which is again divided into a court of equity, and a court of common law. Id. 44. 2. In this court all personal actions may be brought, and suits in equity commenced, the plaintiff in both (fictitiously for the most part) alleging himself to be the king's debtor, in order to give the court jurisdiction of the cause. Wooddes. Lect. 69. But by stat. 2 Will. IV. c. 39, s. 1, a change has been made in this respect. (references) | |
| Red Book of the Exchequer | Literature | (The). Liber Rubens Scaccarii in the Record Office. It was compiled in the reign of Henry III. (1246), and contains the returns of the tenants in capitc in 1166, who certify how many knights' fees they hold, and the names of those who hold or held them, also much other matter from the Pipe Rolls and other sources. It has not yet (1895) been printed, but is described in Sims' Manual (p. 41), Thomas's Handbook (p. 255), and in the Record Report of 1837 (pp. 166-177). A separate account of it was printed by Hunter in 1837. It contains the only known fragment of the Pipe Roll of Henry II., and copies of the important Inquisition returned into the exchequer in 13 John. It is not written in red ink. (Communicated by A. Oldham.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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