24. Common law side and offices of the Chancery. The common law court and offices of the chancery are much more ancient than the equity court (3 Bl. Com. 48), the jurisdiction of the latter having been originally an encroachment, and hence in old books the equitable jurisdiction of the court is called its "extraordinary jurisdiction." The most important part of the common law side of the Court of Chancery was its offices, especially the petty bag office, the hanaper office and the enrolment office, the two former of which were concerned in issuing or sealing original writs, writs of error, parlia mentary writs, letters-patent, commissions to inquire as to lunatics, charities, &c., while in the enrolment office, as its name implies, deeds, &c., were enrolled or entered on record. The court on this side of the chancery had jurisdiction in matters relating to the business of the offices-e. g. in proceedings by scire facias to repeal letters-patent, to enforce recognizances, in traverses of offices, and inquisitions, &c. Gilb. Ch. 9; Chit. Pr. 1757; 2 Dan. Ch. Pr. 1608;2 Wms. Saund. 15. See ENROLMENT; HANAPER; PETTY BAG OFFICE; SCIRE FACIAS. 5. By the Judicature Act, 1873, the Court of Chancery, as a common law court, and its offices, were transferred to the Supreme Court of Judicature. (Jud. Act, 1873, 22 16,77.) By the Judicature (Officers) Act, 1879, the enrolment office was consolidated (with others) into the central office of the Supreme Court, and the petty bag office is to be abolished on the next vacancy. 6. Lancaster Chancery Court.-The Court of Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster is a court having a local jurisdiction in equity. It consists of a vice-chancellor, with a registrar and other officers, forming a court of first instance, from which an appeal formerly lay to the "Court of Appeal in Chancery of the County Palatine of Lancaster," consisting of the chancellor of the duchy and the lords justices of the Court of Appeal in Chancery, (Stat. 13 and 14 Vict. c. 43; 17 and 18 Vict. c. 82. As to the jurisdiction of the court, see In re Alison's Trusts, 8 Ch. D. 1; In re Longden, &c., Co., Id. 150;) but by the Judicature Acts, 1873, 1875, this appellate jurisdiction has been transferred to the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court. (Jud. Act, 1873, § 18.) New rules for the procedure of the court were issued at the end, of 1876. Since the above article was written, a treatise on the practice of the court, by Messrs. Snow and Winstanley, has appeared. 7. Chancery Court of York. The Chancery Court of York is the ecclesiastical court of appeal for cases decided in the diocesan courts within the province of York. (Phillim. Ecc. L. 1207.) The judge is called the "official principal of the court"; he is also official principal of the Court of Arches (q. v.) Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874. 28. The chancery was originally an office for the issue of writs, including the original writs by which all common law actions were commenced in ancient times. It was the business of the clerks in the chancery to "hear and examine the petitions and complaints of suitors, and give them a remedy by the king's writ fitted to their case." (2 Reeves Hist. Eng. L. 251.) The chancellor, being keeper of the king's seal, also had the sealing of all charters, letters-patent, and other public instruments, (see 1 Id. 60; 2 Id. 250;) hence, when any question arose on a charter, patent, commission, &c., proceedings were taken before the chancellor (Gilb. Ch. 12); this was the origin of its common law jurisdiction. 'CHANGE. -An abbreviation of "exchange," (q. v.) See 4 Abb. (N. Y.) Pr. N. S. 162, 190.