Chancery Explained

Chancery may refer to:

Offices and administration

• Court of Chancery, the chief court of equity in England and Wales until 1873
  • Equity (law), also called chancery, the body of jurisprudence originating in the Court of Chancery
  • Courts of equity, also called chancery courts
• Chancery (diplomacy), the principal office that houses a diplomatic mission or an embassy
• Chancery (medieval office), responsible for the production of official documents
• Chancery (Scotland), the keeper of the Quarter Seal, a senior position in the legal system of Scotland
• Diocesan chancery, administration branch in the official government of a Catholic or Anglican diocese
• Apostolic Chancery, an office of the Roman Curia

Writing and printing

• Chancery Standard, of Late Middle English writing
• Chancery hand, either of two distinct styles of historical handwriting
• ITC Zapf Chancery, a family of typefaces

Other uses

• Chancery, Ceredigion, a village in Wales
• the name of several professional wrestling holds

See also

• Chancellery (disambiguation)
• Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, British office that deals with administration of Orders of Chivalry
• Court of Chancery (disambiguation), several uses