See Also: chancery(dictionary)
chancery(encyclopedia)
chancery(dictionary)
WARD IN CHANCERY(law)
Chancery Division(law)
HEARING, chancery practice(law)
SUBPOENA, chancery practice(law)
DISCLAIMER, chancery pleading(law)
ILLUSORY APPOINTMENT, chancery practice(law)
Renaissance Chancery Court Covent Garden(tourism)

chancery (iou)



chancery noun. In sense 2 also Chancery. LME.
[Contr. of CHANCELLERY.]
= CHANCELLERY 1. LME-M17.
The court of the Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (earlier of England or Great Britain), now a division of the High Court of Justice. Also Court of Chancery, High Court of Chancery. LME.
b. More fully chancery court, court of chancery. A similar court elsewhere; US a court of equity. M16.
An office for public records. E16.
= CHANCELLERY 2. M16.
= CHANCELLERY 3. (Now the official term in Brit. diplomatic use.) E20.
Phrases: in chancery (of the head of a boxer or wrestler) held under the opponent's arm and being pummelled. Inns of Chancery: see INN noun. Master in Chancery: see MASTER noun1 4c. ward in Chancery a ward of court under the protection of the Court of Chancery.