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Chancery

,—a tribunal which professes to have no other object in view than the strictest equity; an office requiring the most incorruptible honor and integrity, but which is generally filled by the vilest tools and sycophants of power, and, instead of being a faithful administration of speedy and impartial justice, is proverbial for its extortion and delays. This office is generally allotted as a reward for apostacy.

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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.

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Chancery