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

References

• “counter-roll”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.