chancery
/chan-suh-ree, chahn-/US // ˈtʃæn sə ri, ˈtʃɑn- //UK // (ˈtʃɑːnsərɪ) //
大法官,大教堂,大法官办公室,大法庭
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
plural chan·cer·ies.
- : the office or department of a chancellor; chancellery.
- : an office of public records, especially those of the Lord Chancellor in England.
- : the Lord Chancellor's court, now a division of the High Court of Justice.
- : Law. Also called court of chancery. a court having jurisdiction in equity; court of equity. equity.
- : the administrative office of a diocese.
- : Roman Catholic Church. a department of the Curia Romana now having the responsibility for issuing bulls to establish new dioceses, benefices, etc.
Examples
In December 2001, Dutschke married the woman, according to Lee County Chancery Court records obtained by The Daily Beast.
Breeden persuaded a Delaware Chancery Court judge that he would do better.
Her separation from her husband is the consequence, but her fortune is thrown into chancery.
It was leased to the Cambrian, but got into Chancery and was closed a few years later.
We must fetch a suit in the Court of Chancery, and that I'll do at once upon looking up the facts.
A suit in Chancery was proceeding, to enable him to sell, to his father, the reversion of a portion of his estates.
A society has been formed in London for the reform of abuses in the Court of Chancery.
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