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Exchequer

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

Exchequer

Definition: 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.

Exchequer

Definition: To institute a process against (any one) in the Court
of Exchequer.