Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Chancellor
Lord. See LORD CHANCELLOR.
Chancellor of the Exchequer
In England, a government minister who controls revenue and expenditures. ( Formerly, the Chancellor sat in the Court of Exchequer.
Lord Chancellor
The highest judicial officer in England. ( The Lord Chancellor sits as speaker of the House of Lords, is a member of the Cabinet, and presides at appellate judicial proceedings. - Also termed Lord High Chancellor; Keeper of the King's Conscience.
Lord High Chancellor
See LORD CHANCELLOR.
chancellor of the diocese.
Eccles. law. The sole judge of the consistory court of a diocese.
chancellor's foot
A symbol of the variability of equitable justice. ( John Selden, the 17th-century jurist, is thought to have coined the phrase in this passage, from his best-known book: "Equity is a roguish thing. For law we have a measure, know what to trust to: equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure the Chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure would this be! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot;'tis the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience." Table Talk (1689).
vice-chancellor
A judge appointed to act for the chancellor, esp. in a chancery court. -Abbr. VC.