(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.
Diocese
Definition:
(n.) The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other casualties in recent times have been the workers in the Portsmouth and Salford dioceses.
(2) It is a relatively junior role, which will make her an assistant bishop in the diocese of Chester.
(3) "The relationship between a bishop and a priest of a Roman Catholic diocese has many of the hallmarks of an employment relationship, and therefore it is right and proper that the church should be held legally accountable for abuse by its priests.
(4) More than 1,300 church members in Osorno, along with 30 priests from the diocese and 51 of Chile’s 120 members of parliament, sent letters to Francis in February urging him to rescind the appointment.
(5) The voice of the survivors is being ignored, the concerns of the people and many clergy in Chile are being ignored, and the safety of children in this diocese is being left in the hands of a bishop about whom there are grave concerns for his commitment to child protection.” Barros was installed as bishop of the southern Chilean diocese of Osorno last weekend amid unprecedented opposition, and scuffles inside the cathedral by protesters who say he is unfit to lead.
(6) The findings revealed that 1) nearly 4 out of 10 priests have reservations about the traditional church teaching on direct abortion; 2) 64% state that the traditional teaching is clear and that they are in complete agreement with it; 3) the younger the priest the less likely he is to agree with the church position; 4) hospital chaplains express more agreement with the traditional teaching than any other job category; 5) the proportions who disagree are highest in the two New York City dioceses, 6) the higher the education of the priest the less likely he is to agree with the traditional position; 7) there is a strong relationship between a priest's position on the tradit ional church teaching and his won political activity related to abortion such as writing to officials protesting the liberalized law, etc.
(7) The day after the budget, I visited a food bank in one of the churches in my diocese.
(8) There was repeated failure to assess the risk he posed to children, to confine him to his abbey, to thoroughly investigate allegations of abuse, to notify the police and social services, and to share information between dioceses and report matters to the appropriate civil and ecclesiastical authorities.” The report also criticised an order of Catholic nuns, the Sisters of Nazareth.
(9) A spokeswoman for the diocese of York declined to comment on North's decision, or to say how much local protest had been voiced over his appointment.
(10) Although female bishops were approved by the majority of dioceses, bishops and clergy, they were rejected by the laity on Tuesday when put to a vote in the synod, the church's governing body.
(11) It is exciting but I hope that in a few years it will be more normal for women to be appointed bishops.” The first diocese vacancy to come up after the canon law is changed will be Southwell and Nottingham, after the Rt Rev Paul Butler was appointed as bishop of Durham.
(12) A bishop in Sicily has banned known mafia criminals from acting as godfathers at baptisms in churches in his diocese.
(13) He added that the Scottish church should abolish at least half of its eight diocese – a throwback to the size and power of the pre-reformation church.
(14) Far from disintegrating, Robinson's own diocese has remained supportive of him.
(15) Kaoma is an Anglican priest from Zambia now living and working in the US with the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts due to threats against his life.
(16) Names and surnames of 88,383 consanguineous spouses collected in 16 dioceses of Sicily were analyzed by multivariate analysis to reveal and compare the geographic clusters obtained from both sets of data.
(17) While Vatican spokesmen continue to maintain that Seromba is a victim of malicious slander, the Florence diocese announced this week that it had an open mind as to his culpability.
(18) "The reason for your involuntary separation of employment was based upon on irreconcilable conflict between the laws, discipline, and teaching of the Catholic Church and your relationship – formalized by an act of marriage in Iowa – to a person of the same sex," the Diocese of Kansas City-St Joseph said in its letter of dismissal.
(19) It is not, of course, only the C of E: last autumn the Catholic diocese of Salford announced it was selling about 60 churches and losing half of its 150 parishes.
(20) Storm clouds are also gathering in Wrexham diocese where the position of fieldworker Maria Pizzoni is under review.