Chancery

Chancery may refer to:

  • Chancery (diplomacy), the building that houses a diplomatic mission, such as an embassy
  • Chancery (medieval office), a medieval writing office
  • Chancery (village), in Ceredigion, Wales
  • Diocesan chancery, which houses a diocese's curia
  • Chancery hand, a name for multiple styles of historic writing
  • Chancery of Apostolic Briefs, a former office of the Roman Curia
  • Court of equity, also called a chancery court
  • One of the Courts of Chancery
    • Court of Chancery, the chief court of equity in England and Wales until its abolition in 1873
  • A wrestling hold

Famous quotes containing the word chancery:

    He shall not die, by G—, cried my uncle Toby.
    MThe ACCUSING SPIRIT which flew up to heaven’s chancery with the oath, blush’d as he gave it in;—and the RECORDING ANGEL as he wrote it down, dropp’d a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)