(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.
(n.) In the Unites States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is likely to be replaced by an appeal judge with a chancery background.
(2) It is the largest ever reached in a so-called derivative lawsuit in Delaware chancery court, said Jay Eisenhofer, partner at Grant & Eisenhofer, who represented Amalgamated Bank.
(3) * In Chancery, having noted My Lady Dedlock's interest, Mr Tulkinghorn is enquiring about the identity of the scrivener.
(4) The paper said a document dated August 2010 showed that "confidential information thus stolen from foreign chanceries, and in particular from France", played a major role in obtaining the vote, on 9 June 2010, on a UN resolution imposing new sanctions on Iran for not respecting obligations over its nuclear programme.
(5) As it was any spectators crammed into the gangways of court 16 expecting high courtroom drama will have left as many have before: baffled and generally wrung out by the mind-fuddling complexities of chancery proceedings.
(6) And so with the chancery day extended to its brain-wiping maximum we retired to await tomorrow's verdict.
(7) I had a fare once, a woman who screamed all the way that my route from “Chancery Lane” in central London to Northington Street was wrong.
(8) Several accounting experts said there are many legitimate reasons why US and foreign companies incorporate in Delaware, particularly because of its highly respected Court of Chancery and business-friendly state government.
(9) "Make no mistake, Richard," he warned, "No good will ever come from Chancery."
(10) A chancery built next door to Lutyens' building looks – everyone admits – like a 1960s high school, detracting from the glamour of the residence, which is now solely occupied by the ambassador's family.
(11) We felt we had absolutely no choice but to stand up for ourselves, and indeed all other artists, who are likely to suffer similar circumstances.” None of the group members was in court as the judge, sitting in the high court chancery division, announced the law was on the side of the claimant publishers.
(12) He visited the US and then moved to London, where he worked as a clerk in a Chancery Lane law firm.
(13) Sir Hayden Phillips , 67, the clerk of the crown in chancery during negotiations over whether Michael Ashcroft should be appointed a peer, was responsible for ensuring that the Conservative party stuck to promises given to the political honours and scrutiny committee that he would become a permanent resident in the UK and pay tax on his earnings.
(14) But neither served in the chancery division, as Walker did.
(15) The legal complaint filed in Delaware chancery court said: "Murdoch has treated News Corp like a family candy jar, which he raids whenever his appetite strikes.
(16) The brightly fronted K Chido on Chancery Street is a great stop-off for inexpensive Mexican food – served out of a food truck.
(17) In Chancery, the lawyers grow rich while their clients go mad, but Mr Tulkinghorn has intelligence that Nemo is a Captain Hawdon with whom My Lady Dedlock had an Affair before she married Sir Leicester, and from which union sprang the woman we now know as Miss Esther Summerson.
(18) How it pained me to see him gripped by the curse of Chancery, still more so as Ada was so devoted to him and has married him in secret.
(19) Sir Andrew Morritt, who presides over the chancery division as chancellor of the high court, must retire by next February, when he turns 75.
(20) She worked as a trainee at Hogan Lovells solicitors in London before moving to the Chancery Lane firm Lewis Silkin in 2012.
Crossbill
Definition:
() A bill brought by a defendant, in an equity or chancery suit, against the plaintiff, respecting the matter in question in that suit.
(n.) A bird of the genus Loxia, allied to the finches. Their mandibles are strongly curved and cross each other; the crossbeak.