Barons of the Exchequer
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Barons of Exchequer · barones scaccarii · barons of exchequer · barons of the exchequer · exchequer officials
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Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The judicial officials of the royal Exchequer responsible for determining escheat by default and assessing forfeitures.
It was the duty of the Barons of Exchequer to determine whether lands had thus escheated by default, and also to determine the amount of “forfeit” to be taken where confiscation was not justified or insisted on.
These men, called “barons of the exchequer,” formed what was in fact, though not in name, a third bench or court of justice.
” Ordinary debtors, summoned to answer for their debts before the barones scaccarii were subjected to more rapid pressure than they would have experienced elsewhere.
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The judges of the Exchequer court who heard and gave judgment in the ship-money case against John Hampden.
according to which grounds and reasons all the Justices of the said Courts of King’s Bench and Common Pleas, and the said Barons of the Exchequer, having been formerly consulted with by His Majesty’s command, had set their hands to an extrajudicial opinion expressed to the same purpose, which opinion with their names thereunto was also by His Majesty’s command enrolled in the Courts of Chancery, K …