Exchange
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
BILL OF. See "Bill of Exchange." A department of the government which has the management of the collection of the king's revenue. The name is said to be derived from the chequered cloth which covered the table on which some of the king's accounts were made up, and the amounts indicated by counters. It consists of two divisions, one for_ the receipt of revenue, the other for administering justice.
4 Inst. 103-116; 3 Bl. Comm. 44, 45.
See "Court of Exchequer"; "Court of Exchequer Chamber."