chancery

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In my opinion the livers in these are very like to those that are of the inns in the chancery, their names also are these so far as I now remember Brodegates St. Mary Hall.

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  1. noun Law A court of chancery.
  2. noun Law The proceedings and practice of a court of chancery; equity.
  3. noun Law A court of public record; an office of archives.

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  1. Middle English chancerie, alteration of chancelrie; see chancellery.

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  1. Contr. from earlier *chancelry, chancelery, from Middle English chancelerie, chauncellerie, from Old French chancellerie, French chancellerie = Provencal cancellaria = Catalan cancelleria = Spanish cancellería (cancelaria, the papal chancery) = Portuguese chancellaria = Italian cancelleria = Dutch kanselarij = German kanzlei, kanzelei = Danish kancelli = Swedish kansli = Russian kantsellariya, kantselyariya, from Middle Latin cancellaria, a chancery court, orig. the record-office of a chancellor: see chancellor.
 

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