chancery – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
chancery
n.
office of a chancellor; division of the High Court of Justice (Britain); office of public records; administrative office of a diocese; department which issues bulls (Catholicism)
Chancery
Chancery may refer to:
- Chancery (diplomacy), the building that houses a diplomatic mission, such as an embassy
- Chancery (medieval office), a medieval writing office
- Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, British office that deals with administration of Orders of Chivalry
- Chancery (Scotland), legal office until 1928
- Chancery (village), in Ceredigion, Wales
- Diocesan chancery, which houses a diocese's curia
- Chancery hand, a name for multiple styles of historic writing
- Chancery of Apostolic Briefs, a former office of the Roman Curia
- Court of equity, also called a chancery court
- One of the Courts of Chancery
- Court of Chancery, the chief court of equity in England and Wales until its abolition in 1873
- A class of wrestling holds:
chancery
Noun
1. a court with jurisdiction in equity
(synonym) court of chancery
(hypernym) court, tribunal, judicature
2. an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records
(hypernym) archive, archives
Chancery
(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 jurisdiction only in equity.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Chancery
From the late 10th century, the English office responsible for writing the
king's charters, writs and letters. In the late 12th century, under Hubert Walter, archbishop of Canterbury and
Chancellor of England , the office began recording letters in long rolls; these rolls have proven a valuable historical record for the study of English history. The chancery issued three main types of documents-charters (making permanent grants of land or privileges); letters patent (making temporary privedges); and letters close (bearing secret instructions for royal officials).
