Counterfoil: alternatives and connections

A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan.

(law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decis…

The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, ei…

An examiner; one whose business is to put questions. Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs'…

An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the…

A book compiled in the twelfth century, containing a description of the court of exchequer of England, an official statement of the re…

A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and…

Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interes…

A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and Naples, dur…

To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of co…

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were an…

The presiding judge of the court of exchequer.

The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of proper…

The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of al…

An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.

Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered.

A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to sat…

A deed, bond, or other written engagement, delivered to a third person, to be held by him till some act is done or some condition is p…