1) Chancellery 2) Court 3) Court of chancery 4) Court of equity 5) Diplomatic term 6) Diplomatic word 7) Diplomacy term 8) English court 9) French word used in English 10) Judicature 11) Tribunal
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- a court with jurisdiction in equity
- an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records
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English court of equity law, merged with common law courts in 1873. Dickens pointed out the absurdity of chancery cases in Bleak House. He had gained first hand experience when he won chancery cases against those who pirated editions of A Christmas Carol, and then lost more money in court costs than he was realizing from the book's sales.
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n. a court that can order acts performed. Today chancery courts are merged with law courts in most states.
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[diplomacy] A chancery is the type of building that houses a diplomatic mission or an embassy. The building can house one or several different nations` missions. The term derives from chancery or chancellery, the office of a Chancellor. Some nations title the head of foreign affairs a Chancellor, and chancery eventually became a common refe...
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[medieval office] Chancery is a general term for a medieval writing office, responsible for the production of official documents. The title of chancellor, for the head of the office, came to be held by important ministers in a number of states, and remains the title of the heads of government in modern Germany and Austria. Chancery hand is ...
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church office dealing with legal matters and archives
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• (n.) In the Unites States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity. • (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 jur...
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(from the article `diplomatics`) Development and characteristics of chanceriesOf these departments of state, the chancery was perhaps the most essential, for, without a means of transmitting a number of recognizably authentic ... Philip Augustus acted vigorously to improve the efficiency of his lordship. He was, indeed, practically the ...
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In the UK, a division of the High Court that deals with such matters as the administration of the estates of deceased persons, the execution of trusts, the enforcement of sales of land, and...
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(n) Chancery is the court which derives authority from the King and function according to the equity or fairness of the case or dispute involved rather than following letter of the law. Later the basis of equity is codified and recorded to marginalize the difference between chanceries and law courts.
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The Chancery Division of the High Court considers matters in relation to trust law, the administration of estates, guardianship and charities.
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Chan'cer·y noun [ French
chancellerie , Late Latin
cancellaria , from Latin
cancellarius . See
Chancellor , and confer
Chancellery .]
1. In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly...
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royal secretariat of late Anglo-Saxon and subsequent medieval kings.
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A court of equity, in which a judge can order acts performed, such as that a contract be modified or an activity stopped. The chancery court's functions are distinct from those of common law courts, which can order money damages to be paid, and where jury trials are available. The division between chancery and equity courts is partly based on the o...
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n] - a court with jurisdiction in equity 2. [n] - an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records
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court of chancery noun a court with jurisdiction in equity
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In the UK, a division of the High Court that deals with such matters as the administration of the estates of deceased persons, the execution of trusts, the enforcement of sales of land, and foreclosure of mortgages. Before reorganization of the court system in 1875, it administered the rules of equity as distinct from common law
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Department responsible for recording the administrative business of central government and for producing official documents on its behalf
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the office or department of a chancellor; chancellery. · an office of public records, esp. those of the Lord Chancellor in England. · (in England) the Lord Chancellor's court, now a division of the High Court of Justice. · · Also calledcourt of chancery.a court having jurisdiction in equity; court of equity. · equity (de...
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