exchequer chamber

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exchequer chamber - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, Eng. law. A court erected by statute 31 Ed. III. c. 12, 
  to determine causes upon writs of error from the common law side of the 
  court of exchequer. 3 Bl. Com. 55. Another court of exchequer chamber was 
  created by the stat. 27 El. c. 8, consisting of the justices of the common 
  bench, and the barons of the exchequer. It has authority to examine by writ 
  of err6r the proceedings of the king's bench, not so generally as that 
  erected by the statute of Edw. III., but in certain enumerated actions.