Chancery Court in United States
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A court or tribunal that has jurisdiction over equity (in U.S. law) or chancery matters. Law actions usually have for their object the assessment of damages, but a court of equity or chancery goes further. It attempts to prevent the wrong itself or give the complainant what he or she bargained for. A few states, like Delaware and Mississippi, still have chancery courts. Others do not separate cases in equity from cases at law, but apply equity principles when appropriate. In the majority of states, equity and law are organized under a single court, which has two dockets-one in equity and one in law. Among the more common equity actions are injunction suits, partition suits, specific performance, rescission of contract, reformation of a contract, and all matters relating to trusts and trustees.
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