Chancery

/t‍ʃˈɑːnsəɹi/

/ˈtʃænsɝi/

[noun]

Chancery

[NOUN]

an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records

a court with jurisdiction in equity

synonyms : court of chancery

Examples

1. Um interestingly, there's some Seventh Amendment history in, in, England of the Chancer, in the courts of Chancery, invalidating patents challenged on, by third parties.

2. Ogden made a complaint in the Court of Chancery of New York, asking them to stop Gibbons from operating steamboats there.

3. And to start with, arbitration, which is concealed from the public, and the Delaware Court of Chancery costs $20.

4. There was a Court of King's Bench which dealt principally with criminal matters, the Court of Common Pleas which dealt principally with civil cases, and the Chancery, the Court of the Lord Chancellor.