The Middle English period ended at about 1470, when the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the introduction of the printing press to England by William Caxton in the late 1470s.

Chancery Standard was largely based on the London and East Midland dialects, for those areas were the political and demographic centres of gravity.

In its early stages of development, the clerks who used Chancery Standard would have been familiar with French and Latin, which must have influenced the forms they chose.

By the mid-15th century, Chancery Standard was used for most official purposes except by the Church ( which used Latin ) and for some legal purposes ( for which Law French and some Latin were used ).

The early printer Richard Pynson in the late 1490s and early 16th century favoured Chancery Standard in his published works, and consequently pushed the English spelling further toward standardisation.

* 1491 or 1492 – Richard Pynson starts printing in London ; his style tends to prefer Chancery Standard, the form of English used by government.

The term Middle English literature refers to the literature written in the form of the English language known as Middle English, from the 12th century until the 1470s, when the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, became widespread and the printing press regularized the language.

However, Richard Pynson, a Frenchman who started printing in London in 1491 or 1492 and who favoured Chancery Standard, was a more accomplished stylist and consequently pushed the English language further toward standardisation.

In 1903, he was named vice-chancellor of the Catholic Church, and became the Chancellor of the Apostolic Chancery in the Secretariat of State in 1908.

Up to the twelfth or thirteenth century, the duty of the Apostolic-or Roman Chancery was to prepare and expedite the pontifical letters and writs for collation of church dignities and other matters of grave importance which were discussed and decided in Consistory.

The problem which confounded Chancery was the shift from representation based on the consent of a group to representation based on a common interest, such as holding shares of a corporation.

However, this rule did not allow such suits to bind similarly situated absent parties, which rendered the rule almost entirely useless and was a direct reflection of Story's inability to understand the old English Chancery precedents.

A recipient of the Ordre National du Mérite recently requested from the order's Chancery the permission to call herself " chevalière ," and the request was granted ( AFP dispatch, Jan 28, 2000 ).

They brought with them the Old Church Slavonic liturgy of the Eastern Orthodox Christian religion, written Slavic language, the version of which known as Chancery Slavonic was to serve the Lithuanian court's document-producing needs for a few centuries, and developed laws, turning Vilnius into a major center of their civilization.

He was Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power.

They first tried going to the Court of Chancery and applying for injunctions prohibiting other publishers from printing their works, and this was initially successful.

Whilst Edward mobilised his own faction and placed Leeds castle under siege, Isabella was given the Great Seal and assumed control of the royal Chancery from the Tower of London.

The estate was much reduced by the suit in Chancery, and the grand plans failed.

In 1901, the financial situation had changed and after a " long legal fight ," he was free to sell the Hope Diamond by an " order of the Master in Chancery " to " pay off debts ," But May Yohe ran off with a rival named Putnam Strong, who was the son of the former New York City mayor William L. Strong.

By the 15th century, the judicial power of Chancery was recognized.

One area in which the Court of Chancery assumed a vital role was the enforcement of uses, a role which the rigid framework of land law could not accommodate.

It was reduced in various stages, starting with the extension of 16th Street through the former Mission grounds in 1889, and later by the construction of the Mission Dolores Basilica Center and the Chancery Building of the Archdiocese of San Francisco in the 1950s.

The exact border was determined by the Chancery Court in 1735.

Before 1 February 1833, in common with the admiralty and ecclesiastical courts, appeal from the Court was to the Crown in Chancery, with appeals being heard by Commissioners appointed by letters patent under the Great Seal in each case.

One case was from the Court of Chancery, and the other from the equity branch of the Court of the Exchequer.

A dedicated-use Chancery courthouse was recently constructed in Georgetown, Sussex County, which has hosted high-profile complex corporate trials such as the Disney shareholder litigation.

A new Chancery Court building was completed in 2009 to make room for county offices and added court room space.

In response, a local advocacy group known as Citizens for Safety and Clean Air filed a lawsuit on behalf of several Bethel residents in Anderson County Chancery Court contending that the council's rezoning was unconstitutional and seeking an injunction preventing the council from rezoning the property as an industrial zone.

He was born in Chancery Lane, London, 8 May 1698, the son of William Baker, a clerk in chancery.

He left Oxford in 1494 – after only two years – at the insistence of his father, to begin his legal training in London at New Inn, one of the Inns of Chancery.

Two key judicial decisions, which are still frequently cited today, are reported only in Hare's Reports in Chancery:

As well as the Lords Justices, the Lord Chancellor, any previous Lord Chancellors, the Lord Chief Justice, the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, the Vice-Chancellor of the Chancery Division and the Master of the Rolls could also hear cases, although in practice only the Master of the Rolls did so.

With the shift of the Exchequer of Pleas towards a common law court, the Chancery was the only equitable body in the English legal system.

After the reign of Edward IV, if the charitable land was to be sold ( or land was to be sold to create the charity ) the Court of Chancery was the only place this could be done, as ecclesiastical and probate courts did not have a valid jurisdiction.

Until the Common Law Procedure Act 1854, the Court of Chancery was the only body qualified to grant injunctions and specific performance.

Situated on the Piccadilly Line ( between Covent Garden and Russell Square ) and on the Central Line ( between Tottenham Court Road and Chancery Lane ), it is the only station common to the two lines, although the two lines also cross each other three times in West London.

Judges of Consistory Courts, the Arches Court of Canterbury, the Chancery Court of York and the Court of Ecclesiastical Causes Reserved are appointed only after consultation with the Lord Chancellor.

Wolfall had the poet arrested for debt in 1600, and when in 1608 Wolfall's son, having inherited his father's papers, sued yet again, Chapman's only resort was to petition the Court of Chancery for equity.

After the War ended there were only two equity courts remaining, the Exchequer and Court of Chancery, the latter publicly reviled for its slow pace and because it was led by the Lord Chancellor, a political figure who had been intimately involved in the conflict.

Serjeants also had the privilege of being immune from most normal forms of lawsuit-they could only be sued by a writ from the Court of Chancery.

In the Diocese of Breslau there existed an institution known as the " Secret Chancery " ( Geheimkanzlei ), which expedites only matters decided by the prince-bishop personally or with the advice of this body.