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Procedendo :: Procedendo (n.) In English practice, a writ issuing out of chancery in cases where the judges of subordinate courts delay giving judgment, commanding them to proceed to judgment..

Aulic :: Aulic (n.) The ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of divinity in some European universities. It begins by a harangue of the chancellor addressed to the young doctor, who then receives the cap, and presides at the disputation (also called the aulic)..

Rehear :: Rehear (v. t.) To hear again; to try a second time; as, to rehear a cause in Chancery..

Interdict :: Interdict (n.) An order of the court of session, having the like purpose and effect with a writ of injunction out of chancery in England and America..

Chance :: Chance (adv.) By chance; perchance.

Rub :: Rub (n.) A chance.

Expectation :: Expectation (n.) The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. Expectations are computed for or against the occurrence of the event.

Fiat :: Fiat (n.) An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.

Chanceably :: Chanceably (adv.) By chance.

Probability :: Probability (n.) Likelihood of the occurrence of any event in the doctrine of chances, or the ratio of the number of favorable chances to the whole number of chances, favorable and unfavorable. See 1st Chance, n., 5..

Choir :: Choir (n.) The chancel.

Bema :: Bema (n.) That part of an early Christian church which was reserved for the higher clergy; the inner or eastern part of the chancel.

Plea :: Plea (n.) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause; in a stricter sense, an allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer; in a still more limited sense, and in modern practice, the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's declaration and demand. That which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant's plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why

Lord :: Lord (n.) A title bestowed on the persons above named; and also, for honor, on certain official persons; as, lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, etc..

Contingency :: Contingency (n.) An event which may or may not occur; that which is possible or probable; a fortuitous event; a chance.

Apsidal :: Apsidal (a.) Of or pertaining to the apse of a church; as, the apsidal termination of the chancel..

Roustabout :: Roustabout (n.) A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs..

Adventure :: Adventure (n.) That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss..

Balk :: Balk (v. t.) To omit, miss, or overlook by chance..

Chancellor :: Chancellor (n.) A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction..

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