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    The Exchequer of Pleas, or Court of Exchequer, was a court that dealt with matters of equity, a set of legal principles based on natural law and common...
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    components: the purely administrative Exchequer of Receipt, which collected revenue, and the Exchequer of Pleas, a law court concerned with the King's...
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    to early 13th century after splitting from the Exchequer of Pleas, the Common Pleas served as one of the central English courts for around 600 years...
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    court of appeal for the Exchequer of Pleas and Common Pleas, and required Parliament to sign off on its decisions. From 1585, the Court of Exchequer Chamber...
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    Rylands v Fletcher (category House of Lords cases)
    Rylands, however, had no way of knowing about the mine shafts and so was not. The case then went to the Exchequer of Pleas, where it was heard between...
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    Exchequer, and Common Pleas) were merged, and John Coleridge, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, became Lord Chief Justice, and the offices of Chief...
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  • Court of Exchequer may refer to: Exchequer of Pleas, an ancient English court that ceased to exist independently in the late nineteenth century Court of Exchequer...
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  • Baron of the Exchequer was the first "baron" (meaning judge) of the English Exchequer of Pleas. "In the absence of both the Treasurer of the Exchequer or...
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    Barons of the Exchequer, or barones scaccarii, were the judges of the English court known as the Exchequer of Pleas. The Barons consisted of a Chief...
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    Government in late medieval England (category Government of England)
    lower exchequer received payments and issued receipts in the form of tally sticks. The upper exchequer was a court called the Exchequer of Pleas. In theory...
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    With the shift of the Exchequer of Pleas towards a common law court and loss of its equitable jurisdiction by the Administration of Justice Act 1841...
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  • of the Receipt of the Exchequer; and thence, eventually, to The National Archives at Kew. The Plea Rolls for the Courts of Common Pleas and King's Bench...
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    courts (the Court of King's Bench and Exchequer of Pleas) and precedence over all other lawyers. Only Serjeants-at-Law could become judges of these courts...
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  • Tubman, President of Liberia Winston Tubman, Liberian politician in law Tubman, a senior barrister of the historic Exchequer of pleas of England and Wales...
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    Justices of the Common Pleas were transferred to the new Common Pleas Division, and retained their previous titles until they left office. The Common Pleas Division...
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  • Byrne v Boadle (category Exchequer of Pleas cases)
    law case that first applied the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur (“the thing speaks for itself”). A barrel of flour fell from a second-story loft and hit...
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    Heydon's Case (category Exchequer of Pleas cases)
    force, for a term of life, any grants that had been made more than a year before the enactment of the statute. The Court of Exchequer found that the grant...
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    Assizes (redirect from Justice of Assize)
    many justices of the Court of King's Bench, those of the Court of Common Pleas, and barons of the Exchequer of Pleas in some seasons of the year travelled...
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    Archives, by whose permission images of the rolls for the Courts of Common Pleas, King's Bench, and Exchequer of Pleas, from the 13th century to the 17th...
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    which acted as a court of equity and revenue in a way similar to the English Exchequer of Pleas, and the Inferior Exchequer, which directly collected...
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  • R v Pritchard (category Exchequer of Pleas cases)
    a leading case in the law of England and Wales on assessing a defendant's fitness to plead. The ruling reported is that of Edward Hall Alderson, cited...
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  • The Exchequer of the Jews (Latin: Scaccarium Judaeorum) was a division of the Court of Exchequer at Westminster which recorded and regulated the taxes...
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    law jurisdiction of the Exchequer of Pleas, with splits forming during the 1190s and the division becoming formal by the beginning of the 13th century...
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    part of the Westminster courts, along with the Exchequer of Pleas (qualified to hear cases involving revenue owed to the King) and the Court of Common...
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    committee of the House of Commons, resulting in the Parliamentary Elections Act 1868, whereby two Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, Exchequer of Pleas or...
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    Court of Exchequer (Ireland), or the Irish Exchequer of Pleas, was one of the senior courts of common law in Ireland. It was the mirror image of the equivalent...
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  • Hobbit (unit) (category Units of volume)
    In 1825, the Exchequer of Pleas heard the case of Tyson v. Thomas, regarding an unfulfilled 1823 contract for the delivery of 20 hobbits of barley in Llanrwst...
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    Chandelor v Lopus (category Exchequer of Pleas cases)
    big talk of the market merchants in the plying of their wares, or if there had been indeed an actual deceit in the transaction. The Exchequer Court held...
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  • Priestley v Fowler (category Exchequer of Pleas cases)
    the Court of Exchequer intimated the sufficiency of the declaration on this subject. Next, after acknowledging that the suit was "a case of the first...
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  • Franklin v South Eastern Rly (category Exchequer of Pleas cases)
    relating to the measure of damages that can be gained for the death of a close relative under the Fatal Accidents Act 1846, as of 2024[update] governed...
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