How to Use chancery in a Sentence

chancery

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  • The settlement still must be approved by a chancery court.
    — CBS News, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Quintanilla stood in front of the chancery office to tell his story.
    — Pacific Daily News, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The case is still working its way through Delaware chancery court.
    — Sean O'Kane, The Verge, 22 June 2018
  • Last year, a Delaware chancery court judge ruled in Mr. Schwartz’s favor.
    — Rebecca Davis O’Brien, WSJ, 3 June 2021
  • The archdiocese’s archives at its chancery on the West Side are open to the public and contains a wealth of documents.
    — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Its chancery court judges are business-law experts who hear cases on a fast-track basis.
    — Jef Feeley, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The chancery court in the state is the premier venue for resolving high-profile corporate disputes.
    — Jef Feeley, Bloomberg.com, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Weakland had not lived in the United States in a decade, and had no understanding of how a diocese or chancery office worked.
    — Annysa Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2022
  • In January, hundreds of guests packed into to the embassy’s chancery, among them dozens of Trump-campaign alumni and future West Wing staff.
    — Nicholas Confessore, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017
  • The Great Seal of the United States on the outside wall has been defaced, although another one still is undamaged in white above the entryway of the compound’s chancery.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2019
  • As the nation’s principal arbiter of business law, the chancery court can’t afford to allow its orders to be flouted.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2022
  • Here too, the chancery court noted, the services of photography and videography are missing.
    — Roxanne Bland, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022
  • The deal needs to be completed by Friday or a trial will commence that is expected to see a Delaware chancery court judge rule in favor of Twitter and against Musk.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Some counties rarely hold people in jail — sometimes because a sheriff, chancery judge or other official has taken a stand against it.
    — Isabelle Taft, ProPublica, 27 July 2023
  • There, chancery judges—business law experts—hear cases without juries and can’t award punitive damages.
    — Jef Feeley, Fortune, 10 July 2022
  • The dispute went public on Nov. 16, when Hall filed a lawsuit in a Nashville chancery court asking a judge to stop the sale by Oates so a separate, private arbitration could begin.
    — Jonathan Mattise, Fortune, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The trial is taking place in Delaware chancery court, a staid environment that doesn’t allow live-streaming or tweeting from the courtroom.
    — Washington Post, 12 July 2021
  • The documents were taken from three sites: the diocesan chancery; a warehouse storage facility; and St. Cecilia’s parish in north Oak Cliff.
    — David Tarrant, Dallas News, 29 May 2020
  • This home was originally built in 1913 for Bishop Joseph P. Lynch and was previously used as a monastery, convent, rectory and chancery.
    — Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The company is asking a Nashville chancery judge for permission to move the remains, which include skeletal pieces and thin wood fragments thought to be from coffins, to the adjacent, 200-year-old Nashville City Cemetery.
    — CBS News, 16 Aug. 2022
  • All historians know is that soon after Savonarola’s demise, Machiavelli, then age 29, emerged to become head of Florence’s second chancery.
    — National Geographic, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Wiseman's attorneys will be in a Tennessee chancery court before the same judge who granted the temporary restraining order.
    — Teresa M. Walker, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Shawe's interest in the Chancery Court stems from the legal problems of her son's translation software company, TransPerfect, which was embroiled in very costly years-long litigation in the chancery system.
    — Bo Erickson, CBS News, 29 Aug. 2019
  • For his part, Musk, despite having to be dragged through the chancery court in Delaware to buy the company, issued reassurances that his motivation is to maintain a digital public square for the common good.
    — Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The suit in Delaware’s court of chancery seeks unspecified damages from the directors on behalf of the company along with corporate governance reforms.
    — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Hebda told us, noting that the move brings under one roof employees who had been scattered among three buildings, including the former chancery and archbishop’s residence on Summit Avenue.
    — Pioneer Press Editorial Board, Twin Cities, 19 Mar. 2017
  • Delaware’s business law-specific chancery court will handle the dispute, per a stipulation in the original contract.
    — Colin Lodewick, Fortune, 12 July 2022
  • In the declaration filed Wednesday in a Nashville chancery court, Hall also lamented the deterioration of his relationship with and trust in his musical partner of more than a half-century.
    — Jonathan Mattise, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Eventually this function devolved to judicial bodies called chancery courts.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2022
  • After review, the chancery court concluded that this section does not contemplate digital photography, or the images produced.
    — Roxanne Bland, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2022

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