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Definition of Chancery

1. Noun. A court with jurisdiction in equity.

2. Noun. An office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records.

Definition of Chancery

1. n. In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity.

Definition of Chancery

1. Noun. In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity. ¹

2. Noun. In the United States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity. ¹

3. Noun. The type of building that houses a diplomatic mission or embassy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chancery

1. a court of public record [n -CERIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chancery

chancellories chancellors chancellorship chancellorships chancellory chancellour chancellours chancellourship chancelor chancelour

chancelry chancels chancer chanceries chancers chancery (current term) chances chances are chancest chanceth

chancey chancier chanciest chancily chanciness chancinesses chancing chancre chancre redux chancres

Literary usage of Chancery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1847)
"To give farther time for illumination, a resolution was passed to suspend all proceedings in chancery for one month, the Lords Commissioners for the Great ..."

2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"chancery Lane must be widened, is the deafening cry of its tenants and its ... The Court of chancery must be widened too —widened, yes, thrown open to the ..."

3. A History of English Law by William Searle Holdsworth, John Burke (1903)
"Unsoundness of mind gives the Courtof chancery no jurisdiction whatever. ... The Court of chancery is by law the guardian of infants whom it makes its wards ..."

4. The Parliamentary Debatesby Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1824)
"It had been the declared opinion of a late noble marquis (Londonderry), that evils existed in the Court of chancery of no ordinary magnitude ; and of the ..."

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