Exchequer.Court Of

One of the three superior courts of law in England, (inferior, however, in rank to both the Queen's Bench and the Common Pleas;) originally intended principally to order the revenues of the crown, and to recover tli? king's debts and duties, but which has long possessed the character of an ordinary court of justice between subject and subject. 3 £1. Com. 44. 3 SUph. Com. 400, 401. It was formerly a court both of law and equity, but the equitable jurisdiction was recently taken away by statute 6 VicU c. 5, and it is now therefore a court of revenue and a court of common law, only. In the former capacity, it ascertains and enforces, by proceedings appropriate to the case, the proprietary rights of the crown against the subjects of the realm; in the latter, it administers redress between subject and subject, in all actions whatever, except real actions. It is a court of record, and its judges are five in number, consisting of one chief and four puisne barons, as, m this court, the judges are termed. Id. ibid. 2 Id. 644, note.