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chancery


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Definition:
a court of equity, an example being the US bankrupcy courts

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Upon what I said in relation to our courts of justice, his majesty desired to be satisfied in several points; and this I was the better able to do, having been formerly almost ruined by a long suit in chancery, which was decreed for me with costs.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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Five little Indian boys going in for law;
One got in Chancery and then there were four.

Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. p.22 (1939)
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“All right. All right. They’ll be safe with me, as safe as in Chancery!

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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