EXCHEQUERED
Verb
exchequered
simple past tense and past participle of exchequer
Source: Wiktionary
EXCHEQUER
Ex*cheq"uer, n. Etym: [OE. escheker, OF. eichekier, fr. LL.
scaccarium. See Checker, Chess, Check.]
1. One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered
cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table. [Eng.]
Note: 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 department, it administered
justice in personal actions between subject and subject. A person
proceeding against another in the revenue department was said to
exchequer him. The judges of this court were one chief and four
puisne barons, so styled. The Court of Exchequer Chamber sat as court
of error in which the judgments of each of the superior courts of
common law, in England, were subject to revision by the judges of the
other two sitting collectively. Causes involving difficult questions
of law were sometimes after argument, adjourned into this court from
the other courts, for debate before judgment in the court below.
Recent legislation in England (1880) has abolished the Court of
Exchequer and the Court of Exchequer Chamber, as distinct tribunals,
a single board of judiciary, the High Court of Justice, being
established for the trial of all classes of civil cases. Wharton.
2. 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. Barons of the exchequer. See under Baron.
– Chancellor of the exchequer. See under Chancellor.
– Exchequer bills or bonds (Eng.), bills of money, or promissory
bills, issued from the exchequer by authority of Parliament; a
species of paper currency emitted under the authority of the
government, and bearing interest.
Ex*cheq"uer, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exchequered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Exchequering.]
Definition: To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of
Exchequer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition