Look up: Exchequer

1. Exchequer
   Ancient Measurement Terms: Financial department of the royal government. The chief officers of the Exchequer were the Treasurer, the Chancellor and the Justiciar. Sheriffs, in their role as regional chief accountants, presented reports to the exchequer at Easter and Michaelmas.
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2. Exchequer
   (Ancient Money Terms:) Financial department of the royal government. The chief officers of the Exchequer were the Treasurer, the Chancellor and the Justiciar. Sheriffs, in their role as regional chief accountants, presented reports to the exchequer at Easter and Michaelmas.
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3. Exchequer
   financial accounting department of Anglo-Norman central government from Henry I's reign.
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4. exchequer
   Name of the king's court of revenue which is taken from the fact that in early times the accounts were reckoned up on a chequered cloth, resembling a large chessboard, round which the officers sat....
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5. Exchequer
   The financial department of the Medieval monarchy and bishoprics, responsible for collecting, accounting and issuing of money. Such a department has become the government's treasury.
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6. Exchequer
   Ex·cheq'uer noun [ Middle English escheker , Old French eichekier , from Late Latin scaccarium . See Checker , Chess , Check .] 1. One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered clot...
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7. Exchequer
   Ex·cheq'uer transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Exchequered ; present participle & verbal noun Exchequering .] To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer.
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8. exchequer
   1. One of the superior courts of law; so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table. ... The exchequer was a court of law and equity. In the revenue department, it had jurisdiction over the proprietary rights of the crown against subjects; in the common law departmen...
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9. Exchequer
   • (n.) The department of state having charge of the collection and management of the royal revenue. [Eng.] Hence, the treasury; and, colloquially, pecuniary possessions in general; as, the company`s exchequer is low. • (v. t.) To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Excheq...
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10. Exchequer
    in British history, the government department that was responsible for receiving and dispersing the public revenue. The word derives from the Latin ... [4 related articles]
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11. Exchequer
    The exchequer (or Treasury) is a government department dealing with State finance. It was introduced by the Normans.
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12. Exchequer
    The `Exchequer` was (and in some cases still is) a part of the governments of England (subsequently including Wales), Scotland, and Northern Ireland (present day United Kingdom) that was responsible for the management and collection of revenues. The various Exchequers have also developed judicial ro...
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