Definition of chancery Chancery

/ʧæˈnsɚi/ - [chanseree] - chan•cer•y

We found 11 definitions of chancery from 6 different sources.

What does chancery mean?

Noun Plural: chanceries
chancery - an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records
chancery - a court with jurisdiction in equity
		court of chancery

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chancery (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.
chancery (Noun)
In the United States, a court of equity ; equity; proceeding in equity.
chancery (Noun)
The type of building that houses a diplomatic mission or embassy.
chancery (Noun)
The type of building that houses the offices and administration of a diocese; the offices of a diocese.

chancery (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.
chancery (n.)
In the Unites States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity.

chancery
chan′sėr-i, n. formerly the highest court of justice next to the House of Lords, presided over by the Lord High Chancellor—now a division of the High Court of Justice: a court of record generally: (slang) the position of a boxer's head when under his adversary's arm: (obs.) the office of a chancellor or ambassador.—Chancery office, in Scotland, an office in the General Register House at Edinburgh, managed by a director, in which all royal charters of novodamus, patents of dignities, gifts of offices, remissions, legitimations, presentations, commissions, and other writs appointed to pass the Great and Quarter Seals are recorded.—In Chancery, in litigation, as an estate: (slang) in an awkward predicament. [Fr. chancellerie.]