Explore: Chancery Cases

appellate cases through the Court of Appeal in Chancery and the House of Lords, leaving a maximum of three Chancery judges who were available to hear cases. Further

King's Bench Division, the Chancery Division and the Family Division. Their jurisdictions overlap in some cases, and cases started in one division may

restrain Mlle Wagner. She appealed. Lord St Leonards LC, in the Court of Chancery, held the injunction did not constitute indirect specific performance of

used to distinguish between the ambassador's residence and the chancery. In some cases, an ambassador's residence and the business office are still located

narrator. At the centre of Bleak House is a long-running legal case in the Court of Chancery, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, which comes about because a testator

law, developed in the English Court of Chancery, with the general purpose of providing legal remedies for cases wherein the common law is inflexible and

Burcote, Gloucs. National Archives; various Chancery Cases, such as C 5/30/71, etc National Archives; Chancery case:C 5/30/71; IGI burial record 29 April 1661

is a fictional probate case in Bleak House (1852–53) by Charles Dickens, progressing in the English Court of Chancery. The case is a central plot device

prove the loss by direct evidence; and, therefore, that must in almost all cases be made out by circumstances. The jury found for the plaintiff, and damages

as an equity court or chancery court, is a court authorized to apply principles of equity rather than principles of law to cases brought before it. These