chancery
Defined in 8 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)
United States Code
22 U.S.C. § 4302 — for purposes of this chapter
“chancery” means the principal offices of a foreign mission used for diplomatic or related purposes, and annexes to such offices (including ancillary offices and support facilities), and includes the site and any building on such site which is used for such purposes;
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
See Coubt of Chancery.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
or Court of Chancery, Cancellaria, I. A court of equity; a court in which equity is exclusively or chiefly administered; the court of the chancellor.
In English law. The court of the Lord High Chancellor, who in theory exercised such judicial powers as reside in the crown, — powera which originally were invoked as by fkvor of the king, but afterwards developed into a system of equity^ The court thus became the highest court of equity; though it had more anciently commonlaw jurisdiction, called its ordinary jurisdiction, in virtue of which it issued original writs, commissions, etc., under the great seal, — a jurisdiction which was later overshadowed by the equitable or exequity; namely, the court of the Master cellor s courts, the court of the Lords of Appeal in Chancery consisting of Lords Justices, of whom there were Vice-chancellor.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
LIquity; equitable jurisdiction; a court of equity; the system of jurisprudence administered in courts of equity. See CourT OF CHANCERY.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Equity; a court of equity,
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
or COURT OF CHAN-