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Term Definition Chancery Court - a court of equity, as opposed to a court of law.
Application in Divorce The terms equity and chancery refer to a system of justice inherited from England. It is justice administered according to fairness, "as contrasted with the strictly formulated common law." Equity denotes "the spirit and habit of fairness, justice, and right," so, as one lawyer wrote, "...bad works never prosper."

Also called rules of civil procedure.

Courts of law now hear equity actions in must jurisdictions.

See Equity.