Chancery Definition

chănsə-rē
chanceries
noun
chanceries
A court of equity.
Webster's New World
The laws, practice, and proceedings of a court of equity.
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A division of the High Court of Justice in England and Wales, presided over by the Lord High Chancellor of England.
Webster's New World
A court of record; office of public archives.
Webster's New World

Chancellery.

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Synonyms:
idiom
in chancery
  • in process of litigation in a court of equity
  • in an awkward or helpless situation
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Other Word Forms of Chancery

Noun

Singular:
chancery
Plural:
chanceries

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Chancery

  • in chancery

Origin of Chancery

  • French chancellerie, from Late Latin cancellaria, from Latin cancellarius, from cancellus (“lattice”) (English chancel), from cancelli (“grating, bars”) (from which cancel (“cross out (with lines, as in a latticework)”)), from the lattice-work that separated a section of a church or court.

    From Wiktionary

  • See related chancellor and chancellery, and the more distantly related incarcerate (“put behind bars”), from carcer (“prison”).

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  • Middle English chancerie alteration of chancelrie chancellery

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Chancery Sentence Examples

  • In an act of 1534, with regard to ecclesiastical appeals from the courts of the archbishops to the crown, it is provided that the appeal shall be to the king in Chancery, "and that upon every such appeal a commission shall be directed under the great seal to such persons as shall be named by the king's highness, his heirs or successors, like as in cases of appeal from the Admiralty Court."

  • The judiciary is composed of a supreme court of seven members, a court of chancery, a county court in each county, a probate court in each probate district, and justices of the peace.

  • The court of chancery is held by the judges of the supreme court, the county by a supreme court judge with the aid of two associates elected by the people of the county.

  • Cromwell was essentially a conservative reformer; in his attempts to purge the court of chancery of its most flagrant abuses, and to settle the ecclesiastical affairs of the nation, he showed himself anxious to retain as much of the existing system as could be left untouched without doing positive evil.

  • The depositions of witnesses were returned to Rome in 1632, but meantime the forms of the Roman chancery had been changed by Urban VIII., and the advocates could not at once continue their work.

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