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Allocation :: Allocation (n.) The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; -- a term used in the English exchequer..

Pipe :: Pipe (n.) A roll formerly used in the English exchequer, otherwise called the Great Roll, on which were taken down the accounts of debts to the king; -- so called because put together like a pipe..

Postman :: Postman (n.) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions; -- so called from the place where he sits. The other of the two is called the tubman..

Prest :: Prest (n.) A duty in money formerly paid by the sheriff on his account in the exchequer, or for money left or remaining in his hands..

Checkroll :: Checkroll (n.) A list of servants in a household; -- called also chequer roll.

Stock :: Stock (n.) The part of a tally formerly struck in the exchequer, which was delivered to the person who had lent the king money on account, as the evidence of indebtedness. See Counterfoil..

Exchequering :: Exchequering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Excheque.

Puisne :: Puisne (a.) Younger or inferior in rank; junior; associate; as, a chief justice and three puisne justices of the Court of Common Pleas; the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer..

Tubman :: Tubman (n.) One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer. Cf. Postman, 2..

Chief Baron :: Chief baron () The presiding judge of the court of exchequer.

Exchequered :: Exchequered (imp. & p. p.) of Excheque.

Aid :: Aid (v. t.) A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan..

Budget :: Budget (n.) The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view of the finances of the country, with the proposed plan of taxation for the ensuing year. The term is sometimes applied to a similar statement in other countries..

Apposer :: Apposer (n.) An examiner; one whose business is to put questions. Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts..

Estreat :: Estreat (v. t.) To bring in to the exchequer, as a fine..

Underchamberlain :: Underchamberlain (n.) A deputy chamberlain of the exchequer.

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

Cutter :: Cutter (n.) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.

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

Estreat :: Estreat (v. t.) To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; -- said of a forfeited recognizance..

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