📰 In Chancery by John Galsworthy (1867 - 1933)

For a late Victorian Briton, to be "in chancery" could mean literally to be involved in a law suit (such as, for example, a divorce suit) being heard in a Court of Chancery, or, more broadly, to be trapped in any awkward predicament almost impossible to untangle (as law suits heard in the Court of Chancery often tended to be).In this, the second...