counter-roll

noun

counter-roll

noun

Etymology From counter- + roll; compare control and comptroller.

1

Law UK, Obsolete A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.

  • It consists in making a counter roll, […]or transcript of the annual or Great Roll of the Pipe of the preceding year1830, George Price, A Treatise on the law of the Exchequer:

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