Chancery

['tʃɑːns(ə)rɪ] or ['tʃænsəri]

解释:

(noun.) an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records.

(noun.) a court with jurisdiction in equity.

编辑:拉维恩--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity.

(n.) In the Unites States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity.

编辑:雷金纳德

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Court of Equity, Court of Chancery.[2]. [U. S.] Equity, proceedings in equity.

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解释:

n. formerly the highest court of justice next to the House of Lords presided over by the Lord High Chancellor—now a division of the High Court of Justice: a court of record generally: (slang) the position of a boxer's head when under his adversary's arm: (obs.) the office of a chancellor or ambassador.—Chancery office in Scotland an office in the General Register House at Edinburgh managed by a director in which all royal charters of novodamus patents of dignities gifts of offices remissions legitimations presentations commissions and other writs appointed to pass the Great and Quarter Seals are recorded.—In Chancery in litigation as an estate: (slang) in an awkward predicament.

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