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How to pronounce chancery in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms court of chancery
Type of court, judicature, tribunal
Type Words
Type of archive

Examples of chancery

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In one case, in San Jose, the money went to buy chancery offices for the bishop.
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Krol has spent most of his career in canon law classrooms and chancery offices.
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Most top commercial, chancery law sets do set a problem in advance for pupils.
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Many talented scribes fled the royal chancery following Stephen's attack on Roger.
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Calligraphic typefaces started to be designed in Italy, for chancery purposes.
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Instead, the chancery court would oversee any disputes between the two sides.
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The case will now be remanded to the chancery court for collection of costs.
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There are about 72 elephants at the chancery of the Order or in circulation.
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It is not the first time the former chancery lawyer has been criticised in this way.
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More examples
  • A court with jurisdiction in equity
  • An office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records
  • A Chancery is the type of building that houses a diplomatic mission or embassy. The building can house one or several different nations' missions.
  • Chancery is a general term for a medieval writing office, responsible for the production of official documents.Coredon Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases p. ...
  • Chancery is a village located in the district county of Ceredigion, Mid-Wales, south of the administrative centre Aberystwyth.
  • (Chanceries) A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one state or an international inter-governmental organisation (such as the United Nations) present in another state to represent the sending state/organisation in the receiving state. ...
  • English court of equity law, merged with common law courts in 1873. Dickens pointed out the absurdity of chancery cases in Bleak House. ...
  • In its most general form, refers to an administrative office, or writing office; in medieval England, the oldest and most important of the royal secretariats
  • Court of equity, as opposed to a court of a law.