Definition of chancery in English:

chancery

nounPlural chanceries ˈtʃɑːns(ə)riˈtʃæns(ə)ri

1Law
(in the UK) the Lord Chancellor's court, a division of the High Court of Justice.
〔律〕（英国）大法官法庭（高等法院的一个部门）
Example sentencesExamples
- This is an appeal by the claimant below, against an order of His Honour made on 12 March 2001 when he was sitting as an additional judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court.
- This is an appeal with the permission of the judge against the order of Mr Garnett QC sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division.
- Many of the proceedings against former employees were commenced in the Chancery Division of the High Court; but others were commenced in the Queen's Bench Division or in County Courts up and down the country.
- 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.
- Secondly, after the Judicature Acts 1873-1875 it was possible for some negligence cases to be assigned to the Chancery Division of the High Court; such cases would be heard without a jury.
1. 1.1US A court of law that decides legal cases based on the principle of equity.
  Example sentencesExamples
  On November 2, 1998 the chancery action was dismissed ‘without prejudice’.
  A chancery court valued the dentist's practice at $145,000, goodwill included.
  The fight began in Barbour County, where Dent and the other Democratic candidates quickly filed suit in the Barbour County chancery court at Clayton.
  Synonyms
  court of law, law court, bench, bar, court of justice, judicature, tribunal, forum, assizes
2. 1.2historical The court of a bishop's chancellor.
  〈史〉主教法律干事的法庭
  Example sentencesExamples
  I cannot effect the decisions that are made in Rome or in the chanceries of the US bishops too terribly much.
2British An office attached to an embassy or consulate.
〈主英〉大使馆官职；领事馆官职
Example sentencesExamples
- Gift said work began on the repairs and refurbishment of the chancery in September 2003 and on the repairs of the residence in January 2004.
- In 1979 Stagg came to Bulgaria and spent three years here as a third chancery and information secretary.
- More than 6500 sq m of this stone material has been used in the chancery and the other embassy buildings.
- The king possessed the chancery, and then the exchequer too: they were becoming busier and busier.
- I went to the opening of the new chancery and was told the upper floors were to be rented out as private offices.
- The premises of a foreign chancery or embassy are not outside the territory to which the criminal law, otherwise operating in this Territory, applies.
- The design of the proposed development would marry the old building to the new and all entertaining would be done in the chancery.
- The police authorities promptly sent plainclothesmen to guard and protect the chancery and the residence of the Indonesian ambassador.
- Those outside America, in the chanceries of Europe and beyond, who hoped that this would be a passing phase, like a Florida hurricane that wreaks havoc only to blow over, will instead have to adjust to a different reality.
- The same evening, our Tunisian friends hosted a reception on the occasion of the opening of their new chancery and residence in Kudan.
3A public record office.
档案馆
Example sentencesExamples
- 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.
- So there is also a kind of trial by media that is taking place before there is a trial by law: the adversarial culture of American law meets the stonewalling culture of the chancery office.
Synonyms
record office, registry, repository, museum

Phrases

in chancery

informal (of a boxer or wrestler) with their head held, contrary to the rules, between the opponent's arm and body and unable to avoid blows.
Example sentencesExamples
- His head was in chancery against the ropes
- Throughout the fight, Greb displayed a tendency to wrestle, holding his opponent's head in chancery while he himself inflicted unfair punishment.

Origin

Late Middle English: contraction of chancellery.

Definition of chancery in US English:

chancery

nounˈtʃæns(ə)riˈCHans(ə)rē

1US A court of equity.
〈美〉衡平法院
Example sentencesExamples
- Yet whether listening to disputes at Granada's chancery court or following bandits along Catalonia's mountain passes, the reader never loses perspective on how each example connects to the larger issues at hand.
- I have a good deal of sympathy with the writer, although no doubt if the security had been properly defined in the orders the court had previously made, chancery counsel might have shown the writer a way through the thicket.
- Elsewhere, equity and chancery courts handled the proceedings, as did colonial and state legislative bodies.
- Overwhelmed by circuit and chancery court lawsuits against the enterprise, he liquidated the company's assets and departed in 1886.
- In Anglo-American law there were two court systems; the law courts and the equity or chancery courts.
- The bureaucracy of the king's chancery, exchequer, and law courts expanded in the capital and, as a group of ambitious small landowners, in the neighbouring counties.
Synonyms
court of law, law court, bench, bar, court of justice, judicature, tribunal, forum, assizes
1. 1.1 Equity.
  〈美〉衡平法
  Example sentencesExamples
  Only a few other states have separate courts of chancery, and none specialize in corporation law the way that Delaware does.
  I make it quite clear at the outset we do not disavow equity in the sense of chancery.
2. 1.2historical The court of a bishop's chancellor.
  〈史〉主教法律干事的法庭
  Example sentencesExamples
  I cannot effect the decisions that are made in Rome or in the chanceries of the US bishops too terribly much.
3. 1.3British Law The Lord Chancellor's court, a division of the High Court of Justice.
  〔律〕（英国）大法官法庭（高等法院的一个部门）
  Example sentencesExamples
  This is an appeal with the permission of the judge against the order of Mr Garnett QC sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division.
  Many of the proceedings against former employees were commenced in the Chancery Division of the High Court; but others were commenced in the Queen's Bench Division or in County Courts up and down the country.
  This is an appeal by the claimant below, against an order of His Honour made on 12 March 2001 when he was sitting as an additional judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court.
  Secondly, after the Judicature Acts 1873-1875 it was possible for some negligence cases to be assigned to the Chancery Division of the High Court; such cases would be heard without a jury.
  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.
2British An office attached to an embassy or consulate.
〈主英〉大使馆官职；领事馆官职
Example sentencesExamples
- The design of the proposed development would marry the old building to the new and all entertaining would be done in the chancery.
- The same evening, our Tunisian friends hosted a reception on the occasion of the opening of their new chancery and residence in Kudan.
- Gift said work began on the repairs and refurbishment of the chancery in September 2003 and on the repairs of the residence in January 2004.
- In 1979 Stagg came to Bulgaria and spent three years here as a third chancery and information secretary.
- The police authorities promptly sent plainclothesmen to guard and protect the chancery and the residence of the Indonesian ambassador.
- The king possessed the chancery, and then the exchequer too: they were becoming busier and busier.
- Those outside America, in the chanceries of Europe and beyond, who hoped that this would be a passing phase, like a Florida hurricane that wreaks havoc only to blow over, will instead have to adjust to a different reality.
- More than 6500 sq m of this stone material has been used in the chancery and the other embassy buildings.
- The premises of a foreign chancery or embassy are not outside the territory to which the criminal law, otherwise operating in this Territory, applies.
- I went to the opening of the new chancery and was told the upper floors were to be rented out as private offices.
3A public records office.
档案馆
Example sentencesExamples
- So there is also a kind of trial by media that is taking place before there is a trial by law: the adversarial culture of American law meets the stonewalling culture of the chancery 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.
Synonyms
record office, registry, repository, museum

Origin

Late Middle English: contraction of chancellery.

单词	chancery
释义	Definition of chancery in English: chancery nounPlural chanceries ˈtʃɑːns(ə)riˈtʃæns(ə)ri 1Law (in the UK) the Lord Chancellor's court, a division of the High Court of Justice. 〔律〕（英国）大法官法庭（高等法院的一个部门） Example sentencesExamples This is an appeal by the claimant below, against an order of His Honour made on 12 March 2001 when he was sitting as an additional judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court. This is an appeal with the permission of the judge against the order of Mr Garnett QC sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division. Many of the proceedings against former employees were commenced in the Chancery Division of the High Court; but others were commenced in the Queen's Bench Division or in County Courts up and down the country. 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. Secondly, after the Judicature Acts 1873-1875 it was possible for some negligence cases to be assigned to the Chancery Division of the High Court; such cases would be heard without a jury. 1.1US A court of law that decides legal cases based on the principle of equity. Example sentencesExamples On November 2, 1998 the chancery action was dismissed ‘without prejudice’. A chancery court valued the dentist's practice at $145,000, goodwill included. The fight began in Barbour County, where Dent and the other Democratic candidates quickly filed suit in the Barbour County chancery court at Clayton. Synonyms court of law, law court, bench, bar, court of justice, judicature, tribunal, forum, assizes 1.2historical The court of a bishop's chancellor. 〈史〉主教法律干事的法庭 Example sentencesExamples I cannot effect the decisions that are made in Rome or in the chanceries of the US bishops too terribly much. 2British An office attached to an embassy or consulate. 〈主英〉大使馆官职；领事馆官职 Example sentencesExamples Gift said work began on the repairs and refurbishment of the chancery in September 2003 and on the repairs of the residence in January 2004. In 1979 Stagg came to Bulgaria and spent three years here as a third chancery and information secretary. More than 6500 sq m of this stone material has been used in the chancery and the other embassy buildings. The king possessed the chancery, and then the exchequer too: they were becoming busier and busier. I went to the opening of the new chancery and was told the upper floors were to be rented out as private offices. The premises of a foreign chancery or embassy are not outside the territory to which the criminal law, otherwise operating in this Territory, applies. The design of the proposed development would marry the old building to the new and all entertaining would be done in the chancery. The police authorities promptly sent plainclothesmen to guard and protect the chancery and the residence of the Indonesian ambassador. Those outside America, in the chanceries of Europe and beyond, who hoped that this would be a passing phase, like a Florida hurricane that wreaks havoc only to blow over, will instead have to adjust to a different reality. The same evening, our Tunisian friends hosted a reception on the occasion of the opening of their new chancery and residence in Kudan. 3A public record office. 档案馆 Example sentencesExamples 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. So there is also a kind of trial by media that is taking place before there is a trial by law: the adversarial culture of American law meets the stonewalling culture of the chancery office. Synonyms record office, registry, repository, museum Phrases in chancery informal (of a boxer or wrestler) with their head held, contrary to the rules, between the opponent's arm and body and unable to avoid blows. Example sentencesExamples His head was in chancery against the ropes Throughout the fight, Greb displayed a tendency to wrestle, holding his opponent's head in chancery while he himself inflicted unfair punishment. Origin Late Middle English: contraction of chancellery. noun.1 phr. Definition of chancery in US English: chancery nounˈtʃæns(ə)riˈCHans(ə)rē 1US A court of equity. 〈美〉衡平法院 Example sentencesExamples Yet whether listening to disputes at Granada's chancery court or following bandits along Catalonia's mountain passes, the reader never loses perspective on how each example connects to the larger issues at hand. I have a good deal of sympathy with the writer, although no doubt if the security had been properly defined in the orders the court had previously made, chancery counsel might have shown the writer a way through the thicket. Elsewhere, equity and chancery courts handled the proceedings, as did colonial and state legislative bodies. Overwhelmed by circuit and chancery court lawsuits against the enterprise, he liquidated the company's assets and departed in 1886. In Anglo-American law there were two court systems; the law courts and the equity or chancery courts. The bureaucracy of the king's chancery, exchequer, and law courts expanded in the capital and, as a group of ambitious small landowners, in the neighbouring counties. Synonyms court of law, law court, bench, bar, court of justice, judicature, tribunal, forum, assizes 1.1 Equity. 〈美〉衡平法 Example sentencesExamples Only a few other states have separate courts of chancery, and none specialize in corporation law the way that Delaware does. I make it quite clear at the outset we do not disavow equity in the sense of chancery. 1.2historical The court of a bishop's chancellor. 〈史〉主教法律干事的法庭 Example sentencesExamples I cannot effect the decisions that are made in Rome or in the chanceries of the US bishops too terribly much. 1.3British Law The Lord Chancellor's court, a division of the High Court of Justice. 〔律〕（英国）大法官法庭（高等法院的一个部门） Example sentencesExamples This is an appeal with the permission of the judge against the order of Mr Garnett QC sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division. Many of the proceedings against former employees were commenced in the Chancery Division of the High Court; but others were commenced in the Queen's Bench Division or in County Courts up and down the country. This is an appeal by the claimant below, against an order of His Honour made on 12 March 2001 when he was sitting as an additional judge of the Chancery Division of the High Court. Secondly, after the Judicature Acts 1873-1875 it was possible for some negligence cases to be assigned to the Chancery Division of the High Court; such cases would be heard without a jury. 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. 2British An office attached to an embassy or consulate. 〈主英〉大使馆官职；领事馆官职 Example sentencesExamples The design of the proposed development would marry the old building to the new and all entertaining would be done in the chancery. The same evening, our Tunisian friends hosted a reception on the occasion of the opening of their new chancery and residence in Kudan. Gift said work began on the repairs and refurbishment of the chancery in September 2003 and on the repairs of the residence in January 2004. In 1979 Stagg came to Bulgaria and spent three years here as a third chancery and information secretary. The police authorities promptly sent plainclothesmen to guard and protect the chancery and the residence of the Indonesian ambassador. The king possessed the chancery, and then the exchequer too: they were becoming busier and busier. Those outside America, in the chanceries of Europe and beyond, who hoped that this would be a passing phase, like a Florida hurricane that wreaks havoc only to blow over, will instead have to adjust to a different reality. More than 6500 sq m of this stone material has been used in the chancery and the other embassy buildings. The premises of a foreign chancery or embassy are not outside the territory to which the criminal law, otherwise operating in this Territory, applies. I went to the opening of the new chancery and was told the upper floors were to be rented out as private offices. 3A public records office. 档案馆 Example sentencesExamples So there is also a kind of trial by media that is taking place before there is a trial by law: the adversarial culture of American law meets the stonewalling culture of the chancery 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. Synonyms record office, registry, repository, museum Origin Late Middle English: contraction of chancellery.
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