exchequer-chamber
Also chequer-chamber.
1. The chamber devoted to the business of the royal exchequer.
| [1494–1611: see chequer-chamber 1.] 1819 Pantologia s.v. Exchequer, The court of equity is held in the exchequer chamber before the treasurer, chancellor, and barons. |
2. ‘A tribunal of error and appeal’ (Wharton) abolished in 1875 by the Judicature Acts, which transferred its jurisdiction to the Court of Appeal.
| [1528–1714: see chequer-chamber 2.] 1640 Saint-John (title), Argument on the case of Ship-money, before the Judges in the Exchequer-Chamber. 1768 Blackstone Comm. III. 56 The court of exchequer chamber..then consists of all the judges of the three superior courts. 1827 Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) II. xviii. 18 The cause..was heard..before all the judges in the exchequer-chamber. 1838 Penny Cycl. X. 110/2 The Court of Exchequer chamber was first erected in England by stat. 31 Edw. III. 1848 Wharton Law Lex. s.v. Exchequer. The 40 Geo. III. c. 39, established a Court of Exchequer Chamber in Ireland. |