counter-roll
English
editEtymology
editFrom counter- + roll; compare control and comptroller.
Noun
editcounter-roll (plural counter-rolls)
- (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
edit- “counter-roll”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.