Chancery may refer to:
Offices and administration
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Chancery (diplomacy)
A chancery is the principal office that houses a diplomatic mission or an embassy. This often includes the associated building and the site. The building can house one or several different nations' missions. The term derives from chancery or cha ...
, the principal office that houses a diplomatic mission or an embassy
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Chancery (medieval office), responsible for the production of official documents
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Chancery (Scotland), the keeper of the Quarter Seal, a senior position in the legal system of Scotland
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Diocesan chancery
A diocesan chancery is the branch of administration which handles all written documents used in the official government of a Catholic or Anglican diocese.
It is in the diocesan chancery that, under the direction of the bishop or his representativ ...
, administration branch in the official government of a Catholic or Anglican diocese
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Apostolic Chancery, an office of the Roman Curia
Writing and printing
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Chancery Standard, of Late Middle English writing
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Chancery hand
The term "chancery hand" can refer to either of two distinct styles of historical handwriting.
A chancery hand was at first a form of handwriting for business transactions that developed in the Lateran chancery (the ) of the 13th century, t ...
, either of two distinct styles of historical handwriting
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ITC Zapf Chancery
ITC Zapf Chancery is a family of script typefaces designed by the type designer Hermann Zapf and marketed by the International Typeface Corporation. It is one of the three typefaces designed by Zapf that are shipped with computers running Apple's ...
, a family of typefaces
Other uses
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Chancery, Ceredigion, a village in Wales
* the name of several
professional wrestling holds
Professional wrestling holds include a number of set moves and pins used by performers to immobilize their opponents or lead to a submission. This article covers the various pins, stretches and transition holds used in the ring. Some wrestlers us ...
See also
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Chancellery (disambiguation)
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Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
The Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood, or simply the Central Chancery, is an office of the Lord Chamberlain’s department within the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for the administration of ...
, British office that deals with administration of Orders of Chivalry
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Court of Chancery (disambiguation) The Court of Chancery was a court of equity in England and Wales.
Court of Chancery or Chancery Court may also refer to:
*Chancery Court of York, an ecclesiastical court in England
*High Court of Justice#Chancery Division, Chancery Division of the ...
, several uses
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Court of Chancery
The Court of Chancery was a court of equity in England and Wales that followed a set of loose rules to avoid a slow pace of change and possible harshness (or "inequity") of the common law. The Chancery had jurisdiction over all matters of equ ...
, the chief court of equity in England and Wales until 1873
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Court of equity, or chancery court
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