Court of Exchequer
Britishnoun
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At Ottawa last week the Court of Exchequer decided in his favor an international rowdedow involving a mere $22,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Queen's Bench, sir, or the Court of Exchequer, would take care of that.
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James
At Bury St. Edmonds, in the county of Suffolk, a remarkable “Tryal of witches” was held on the tenth day of March, 1664, before Sir Matthew Hale, Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer.
From Witch Stories by Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)
I thought this was odd, because the Exchequer is an inferior court; but I was told that Parke likes to be with Lord Lyndhurst, who has now made the Court of Exchequer of primary importance.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III by Greville, Charles
The case came to trial in 1637, in the Court of Exchequer before Lord Chancellor Coventry, a base creature, mentioned before.
From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Parker, Theodore
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