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/ˈCHans(ə)rē/,
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chanceries, plural;
  1. A court of equity

  2. Equity

  3. The court of a bishop's chancellor

  4. The Lord Chancellor's court, a division of the High Court of Justice

  5. (in the Roman Catholic Church) The office of a diocese

  6. An office attached to an embassy or consulate

  7. A public records office

  1. a court with jurisdiction in equity
  2. an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records
  3. A Chancery is the type of building that houses a diplomatic mission or embassy. The building can house one or several different nations' missions.
  4. Chancery is a general term for a medieval writing office, responsible for the production of official documents.Coredon Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases p. ...
  5. Chancery is a village located in the district county of Ceredigion, Mid-Wales, south of the administrative centre Aberystwyth.
  6. (Chanceries) A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one state or an international inter-governmental organisation (such as the United Nations) present in another state to represent the sending state/organisation in the receiving state. ...
  7. English court of equity law, merged with common law courts in 1873. Dickens pointed out the absurdity of chancery cases in Bleak House. ...
  8. in its most general form, refers to an administrative office, or writing office; in medieval England, the oldest and most important of the royal secretariats
  9. A dash of italic letterforms, generally distinguished by lengthened and curved extenders. Many, but not all, chancery letterforms are also swash forms. (return to top)
  10. originally part of the household, its responsibility was to issue charters, writs, and letters of the king, as well as to store and preserve those items.  The head of the chancery was the chancellor.
  11. court of equity, as opposed to a court of a law.
  12. From the late 10th century, the English office responsible for writing the king's charters, writs and letters. ...
  13. The chancery is the diocesan office where the administration of a diocese is carried on and where records, documents, and proceedings of diocesan courts are kept.
  14. An order issuing out of an appellate court to a lower court, at the request of an appellant, directing that the record of a case pending in the lower court be transmitted for review.
  15. The court that has jurisdiction over divorce cases in some states. In these states, the judge may be called the chancellor. These terms are taken from English Law.
  16. (1) A room, suite of rooms, or building used as a court of record or office of records. (2) A chancellor's court or office; a secretariat.
  17. The old English court in which the monarch's secretary, or Chancellor, began hearing lawsuits during the fourteenth century.
  18. 1) Equity court. 2) The relief given by an equity court.
  19. A term used by some states–like Mississippi–to refer to a court with jurisdiction over probate matters.
  20. Located in Westminster. The official writing center of the royal administration, from the end of the 14th century onward. After 1417, royal clerks used English for official writing.
  21. An embassy office building.