1. chancery - Noun
2. chancery - Adverb
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.
In the Unites States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. Laurence Sterne
As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there. John Donne
Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill it's being roasted at a slow fire it's being stung to death by single bees it's being drowned by drops it's going mad by grains. Charles Dickens
The Court of Chancery never decrees that shall be evidence, which in its nature is not evidence. Richard Aston
Hell and Chancery are always open. Italian Proverb
A criticism of Chancery practice as it developed in the early medieval period was that it lacked fixed rules and that the Lord Chancellor was exercising an unbounded discretion. Source: Internet