court of exchequer

-- so called either from the color of the binding, or from the character of the contents. 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. A book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution. A book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of Edw

The presiding judge of the court of exchequer.

To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced

the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer. n