Court of Exchequer
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The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
The royal court that heard and decided Bates's case, ruling in favour of the Crown's power to levy Impositions.
and one of these, the Imposition on currants, was in 1607 the subject of a trial in the Court of Exchequer, known as Bates’s case.
[xv] judges were the only authorised exponents of the law, and the judges had decided that James’s claim was legal.
They sent a captious and directory message to the Lord Treasurer, Chancellor, and Barons of the Exchequer, touching some judicial proceedings of theirs in our Court of Exchequer.
The Genius of the Common Law
The court in which Baron Parke zealously maintained the technical system of special pleading before its reform.
He was transferred to the House of Lords as Lord Wensleydale a few years after the drastic reformation, by the Common Law Procedure Act of 1852, of the system he had so zealously maintained in the Court of Exchequer.
Being once established, the perverse doctrine was worked out with relentless logical ability, for the most part in the Court of Exchequer, a court which in our fathers’ time had great qualities and the defects of those qualities.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The royal financial and judicial department whose encroachment on common-pleas business is analysed in detail.
plaintiffs obtained a hearing in the exchequer for their common pleas by alleging that they wished to recover debts due to them “in order to enable them to answer the debts they owed to the king.
For stages in this genesis in 1234, 1236, and 1317, see Poole, Exchequer, 183.
the Barons of Exchequer made no difficulty about hearing pleas:
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The Court of Exchequer, whose ordinary civil jurisdiction rested upon a fiction of debt owed to the king.
The ordinary civil jurisdiction of the Court of Exchequer rested upon the equally absurd fiction that the plaintiff in an action was a debtor to the king, and, owing to the injury or damage done him by the defendant, was unable to pay his debt to the king.
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
A historical judicial forum in which criminal causes were handled as fiscal disputes benefiting the crown.
Crimes were tried, at that time, in a court of Exchequer, and the cause became a civil suit between the person accused and the crown.
The Law of Torts
English court that first heard the appeal in Radley v. L&NWR and held there was no evidence of contributory negligence.
The Court of Exchequer held that there was no evidence of contributory negligence, chiefly on the ground that the plaintiffs were not bound to expect or provide against the negligence of the defendants.