Lord Chancellor
Noun
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the highest officer of the Crown who is head of the judiciary and who presides in the House of Lords
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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.
Along with Astraea Redux, Dryden welcomed the new regime with two more panegyrics: To His Sacred Majesty: A Panegyric on his Coronation (1662) and To My Lord Chancellor (1662).
Although the Lord Chancellor is moved by her appeal, which evokes the memory of his wife, he declares that he himself will marry Phyllis.
Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist added gold stripes to his judicial robes after seeing them used by the Lord Chancellor in a production of Iolanthe.
But the Lord Chancellor wryly notes that Strephon has not presented sufficient evidence that Nature has interested herself in the matter.
Chancellorship After Wolsey fell, More succeeded to the office of Lord Chancellor in 1529.