Exchequer Chamber
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
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In English law
<A tribunal of error and appeal. First, it existed in former times as a court of mere debate, such causes from the other courts being sometimes adjourned into it as fhe judges, upon arcument, found to be of great weiyht and difliculty, before any judgmmént was given “pon them in the court below, It then consisted of all the judges of Second, it existed asa court of error, where the judgments of each of the superior courts of common law, in all actions whatever, were subject to revision by the judges of the other two sitting collectively. The composition of this court consequently adinitied of three different combinaiions, consisting of any two of the courts below which were not parties to the judgment appealed against. There was no siven number required to constitute the exchequer chamber, but the court never consisted of less than five. One counsel only was heard on cach side. Error lay from this court to the house of lords. ‘Tis court is abolished, and its jurisdiction in appeals ( proeeedings in error in civil cases and bills of exceptions being abolished) is transferred to the court of appeal.
Jud. Act 1875, § 1d. Wharton.