| 单词 | exchequer of pleas |
| 释义 | > as lemmasExchequer of Pleas a. (More fully Court of Exchequer, Exchequer of Pleas.) A court of law, historically representing the Anglo-Norman exchequer in its judicial capacity. By the Judicature Act of 1873 it was converted into ‘The Exchequer Division’ of the High Court of Justice, and by Order in Council in 1881 this was merged in the Queen's Bench Division.The jurisdiction of the court was theoretically confined to matters of revenue, but in practice was gradually extended to all kinds of cases (except ‘real actions’) by means of the legal fiction that the wrong suffered by the plaintiff had rendered him unable to pay his debts to the king. In addition to its jurisdiction at common law, the court had a jurisdiction in equity, abolished in 1841. In its latest form it consisted of the Chief Baron and five judges, called the Barons of the Exchequer; the Chancellor of the Exchequer was in theory a member of it, and was entitled to a voice in its decisions when it sat in equity. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > judicial body, assembly, or court > [noun] > court of exchequer chequer1178 exchequer1489 exchequer-court1721 1489–90 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 90 Your matter in the Excheker is grevous; there is iij wryttes agaynst you. a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) v. vi. sig. H.iiijv For sure I will put you vp into the Eschequer. 1661 J. Stephens Hist. Disc. Procur. 34 It is an hundred years since the Certificate upon the Commission of Melius inquirendum..was returned into the Exchequer. 1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. ii. 10 The Temple late two Brother Serjeants saw..One lull'd th' Exchequer, and one stunn'd the Rolls. 1816 J. Manning (title) The Practice of the Exchequer of Pleas. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xiii. 349 The fines thus imposed upon jurors had been estreated into the exchequer. Exchequer of Pleas In early use not distinguished from treasury n.; but the department of state called the Treasury has not since the 15th century exercised directly the function etymologically indicated by its name. The office charged with the custody of the revenues was in theory a branch of the Court of Exchequer (see 3), and was sometimes called the Lower Exchequer, the Exchequer of Receipt, or Receipt of Exchequer, to distinguish it from the judicial branch ( Exchequer of Pleas). By the Exchequer and Audit Act 1866, the offices of Comptroller of the Exchequer and Auditor General, and the departments over which they presided, were united.extracted from exchequern.< as lemmas |
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