Chancery

chan′sėr-i, n. formerly the highest court of justice next to the House of Lords, presided over by the Lord High Chancellor—now a division of the High Court of Justice: a court of record generally: ( slang ) the position of a boxer's head when under his adversary's arm: ( obs. ) the office of a chancellor or amba ador.— Chancery office , in Scotland, an office in the General Register House at Edinburgh, managed by a director, in which all royal charters of novodamus, patents of dignities, gifts of offices, remi ions, legitimations, presentations, commi ions, and other writs appointed to pa the Great and Quarter Seals are recorded.— In Chancery , in litigation, as an estate: ( slang ) in an awkward predicament. [Fr. chancellerie .]