counter-roll

English

Etymology

From counter- + roll; compare control and comptroller.

Noun

counter-roll (plural counter-rolls)

  1. (UK, law, obsolete) A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.
    • 1830, George Price, A Treatise on the law of the Exchequer:
      It consists in making a counter roll, [] or transcript of the annual or Great Roll of the Pipe of the preceding year

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