Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Exchequer of Pleas
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
{{short description|English-Welsh court for common and equity law (1190sβ1880)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Good article}} [[File:Exchequer of Pleas, c. 1460 (21329960204).jpg|thumb|right|upright|250px|The Exchequer of Pleas at work|alt=Rectangular peach coloured frame with floral artwork and green trim surrounding a photo of sixteen people around a table dressed in green and blue robes with five people above in tan robes. Below the table is a cage with two people inside.]] The '''Exchequer of Pleas''', or '''Court of Exchequer''', was a court that dealt with matters of [[equity (law)|equity]], a set of legal principles based on [[natural law]] and [[Common law#History|common law]] in [[England and Wales]]. Originally part of the {{lang|la|[[curia regis]]}}, or King's Council, the Exchequer of Pleas split from the {{lang|la|curia}} in the 1190s to sit as an independent central court. The [[Court of Chancery]]'s reputation for tardiness and expense resulted in much of its business transferring to the Exchequer. The Exchequer and Chancery, with similar jurisdictions, drew closer together over the years until an argument was made during the 19th century that having two seemingly identical courts was unnecessary. As a result, the Exchequer lost its equity jurisdiction. With the [[Judicature Acts]], the Exchequer was formally dissolved as a judicial body by an [[Order in Council]] on 16 December 1880. The Exchequer's [[jurisdiction]] at various times was common law, equity or both. Initially a court of both common law and equity, it lost much of its common law jurisdiction after the formation of the [[Court of Common Pleas (England)|Court of Common Pleas]]. From then on, it concerned itself with equitable matters and those common law matters that it had discretion to try, such as actions brought against Exchequer officials and actions brought by the monarch against non-paying debtors. With the [[writ of quominus]], which allowed the Exchequer to look at "common" cases between subject and subject, this discretionary area was significantly expanded, and it soon regained its standing in common law matters. Cases were formally taken by the [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]], but in practice were heard by the [[Barons of the Exchequer]], judicial officials led by the [[Chief Baron of the Exchequer|Chief Baron]]. Other court officials included the [[King's Remembrancer]], who appointed all other officials and kept the Exchequer's records, and the sworn and side clerks, who acted as attorneys to parties to a case.
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)