Chancery

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.