A court of appellate jurisdiction deciding cases of doubtful law; = exchequer-chamber, n.; the chamber in which this court sat.

Usually with capital initial. A commissioner appointed by the Crown to hear appeals, principally from the ecclesiastical courts. Now historical.

‘A tribunal of error and appeal’ (Wharton) abolished in 1875 by the Judicature Acts, which transferred its jurisdiction to the Court of Appeal.

In Scotland: a court of review and appeal held quarterly by justices of the peace on days appointed by statute. With singular and plural…

(usually more fully as Judicial Committee of the Privy Council) a tribunal in the United Kingdom, established in 1833, which considers appeals…