Exchequer

[ɪks'tʃekə;eks-] or [ɪks'tʃɛkɚ]

解释:

(n.) One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer.

校对:玛拉

解释:

n. a superior court which had formerly to do only with the revenue but now also with common law so named from the chequered cloth which formerly covered the table and on which the accounts were reckoned.—v.t. to proceed against a person in the Court of Exchequer.—Exchequer bill bill issued at the Exchequer under the authority of acts of parliament as security for money advanced to the government.—Chancellor of the Exchequer (see Chancellor); Court of Exchequer originally a revenue court became a division of the High Court of Justice in 1875 and is now merged in the Queen's Bench Division.

整理:莱缪尔

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