court of exchequer chamber
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An English court of appeals for the correction of the errors of other jurisdictions. It also heard important matters of great difficulty which were suspended and submitted to it before any judgment was rendered in the court below. See 3 Bl Comm 56.
Ballentine's law dictionary.
Anderson, W.S..
1998.
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