Word Finder - chanceries

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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.

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In the United States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity.

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The type of building that houses a diplomatic mission or embassy.

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The type of building that houses the offices and administration of a diocese; the offices of a diocese.

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In the Middle Ages, a government office that produced and notarized official documents.

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The position of a boxer's head when under his adversary's arm.

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Any awkward predicament.

The bishops had consistorial courts; the patriarchs, chanceries and consistories (ib.).

Other exceptions are the " Institutions of the Empress Marie," which absorb, inter alia, the duties on playing-cards and the taxes on places of public entertainment; the imperial civil list, so far as this does not exceed the sum fixed in 1906 (16,359,595 roubles!); the expenses of the two imperial chanceries, 10,000,000 roubles per annum, which constitute in effect a secret service fund.

To prevent this breach developing into war was now the chief study of the chanceries.

This decisive step was not long in making itself felt in the chanceries of Europe.

They were found in the chanceries of the republics, in the papal curia, in the council chambers of princes, at the headquarters of condottieri, wherever business had to be transacted, speeches to be made and the work of secretaries to be performed.

Any attempt to classify examples by their colours fails, for, while at some periods the particular tints employed in certain chanceries may have been selected with a view to marking the character of the documents so sealed, such practice was not consistently followed.

The connecting link between the general use of the signet, which was required by the Roman law for legal purposes, but which had died out by the 7th century, and the revival of seals in the middle ages is to be found in the chanceries Early of the Merovingian and Carolingian sovereigns, where s m $d seval the practice of affixing the royal seal to diplomas appears to have been generally maintained (see Diplomatic).