| 单词 | the exchequer of receipt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Exchequer of Receipt In early use not distinguished from treasury n.; but the department of state called the Treasury has not since the 15th century exercised directly the function etymologically indicated by its name. The office charged with the custody of the revenues was in theory a branch of the Court of Exchequer (see 3), and was sometimes called the Lower Exchequer, the Exchequer of Receipt, or Receipt of Exchequer, to distinguish it from the judicial branch ( Exchequer of Pleas). By the Exchequer and Audit Act 1866, the offices of Comptroller of the Exchequer and Auditor General, and the departments over which they presided, were united.extracted from exchequern.< as lemmas |
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