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Exchequer hills

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Bills of credit issued in England by authority of parliament.

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Instruments issued at the exchequer, under the authority, for the most part, of acts of parliament passed for the purpose, and containing an engagement on the part of the government for repayment of the principal sums advanced with interest.

2 Steph. Comm. 586. See Briscoe v. Bank of Kentucky, 11 Pet. 328, 9 L. Ed. 709.