chancery

chancery has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. an office of archives for public or ecclesiastic records; a court of public records
• n.. a court with jurisdiction in equity