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High Chancellor

Defined in 1 dictionary — Stimson (1881)

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

who in theory exercises as reside in the Crown; v. Court, 19. were invoked as a favor of the King, but tallized into the system of Equity. The was the highest court of equity, and modern superior courts. Its ordinary practically obsolete, consisted chiefly in writs, writs under the great seal, original; in Chancery as the (offioina justitiae) extraordinary jurisdiction was what is