Chancery
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Chancery may refer to:
- Chancery (diplomacy)Chancery (diplomacy)A 'Chancery' is the type of building that houses a diplomatic mission or embassy. The building can house one or several different nations' missions....
, the building that houses a diplomatic mission, such as an embassy - Chancery (medieval office)Chancery (medieval office)Chancery is a general term for a medieval writing office, responsible for the production of official documents. The title of chancellor, for the head of the office, came to be held by important ministers in a number of states, and remains the title of the heads of government in modern Germany,...
, a medieval writing office - Chancery (village)Chancery (village)Chancery is a village located in the district county of Ceredigion, Mid-Wales, south of the administrative centre Aberystwyth.-Schools:* Chancery School is referred to in this World War II children's evacuation account)....
, in Ceredigion, Wales - Diocesan chanceryDiocesan chanceryA diocesan chancery is the branch of administration which handles all written documents used in the official government of a Roman Catholic or Anglican diocese....
, which houses a diocese's curia - Chancery handChancery handThe term "chancery hand" can refer to one of two very different styles of historical handwriting.A chancery hand was at first a form of handwriting for business transactions that developed in the Lateran chancelry of the thirteenth century, then spread to France, notably through the Avignon...
, a name for multiple styles of historic writing - Chancery of Apostolic Briefs, a former office of the Roman Curia
- Court of equityCourt of equityA chancery court, equity court or court of equity is a court that is authorized to apply principles of equity, as opposed to law, to cases brought before it.These courts began with petitions to the Lord Chancellor of England...
, also called a chancery court - One of the Courts of ChanceryCourt of Chancery (disambiguation)The Court of Chancery was a court of equity in England and Wales.Court of Chancery may also refer to the following courts:Extant:* Delaware Court of Chancery* Chancery Court, an ecclesiastical court in the United KingdomDefunct:...
- Court of ChanceryCourt of ChanceryThe Court of Chancery was a court of equity in England and Wales that followed a set of loose rules to avoid the slow pace of change and possible harshness of the common law. The Chancery had jurisdiction over all matters of equity, including trusts, land law, the administration of the estates of...
, the chief court of equity in England and Wales until its abolition in 1873
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