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in addition to other business in Chancery. In the early history of the Court of Chancery, the Six Clerks and their under-clerks appear to have acted as the
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A Treatise on the Practice of the Court of Chancery, with an appendix of forms and precedents of costs, adapted to the last new orders
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of the Court of Chancery". The Office also facilitated Chancery claims by litigants
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equitable jurisdiction
English
Court of Chancery
London
Chancery Lane
Holborn
commissions
pardons
patents
warrants
Great Seal
attorneys
suitors
Court of Equity
Solicitors
in forma pauperis
mental illness
Court of Chancery Act 1842
Edwin Wilkins Field
Thomas Pemberton
fn to entry for 12 July 1660
"Official Solicitor: Legal basis and history"
Official Solicitor
"Preparing for Fusion: Reforming the Nineteenth-Century Court of Chancery, Part I"
University of Illinois
the original
"Preparing for Fusion: Reforming the Nineteenth-Century Court of Chancery, Part II"
the original
Smith, J. S.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys

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