单词 | chancery |
释义 | chancery/ˈtʃɑːns(ə)ri /noun (plural chanceries) 1 (Chancery or Chancery Division) Law (In the UK) the Lord Chancellor’s court, a division of the High Court of Justice.Any person aggrieved by the inclusion of any land by amendment of the register has, by section 14, a right of appeal to the Chancery Division of the High Court....
1.1US A court of law that decides legal cases based on the principle of equity.The fight began in Barbour County, where Dent and the other Democratic candidates quickly filed suit in the Barbour County chancery court at Clayton....
1.2 historical The court of a bishop’s chancellor.I cannot effect the decisions that are made in Rome or in the chanceries of the US bishops too terribly much. 2chiefly British An office attached to an embassy or consulate.More than 6500 sq m of this stone material has been used in the chancery and the other embassy buildings....
3A public record office.The survival of chancery records from 1199 onwards permits historians to look, for the first time, into the daily routine of the king's government at work....
Phrasesin chancery OriginLate Middle English: contraction of chancellery. |
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