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.
