In Chancery
By John Galsworthy · Running time 11:42:30 · Family Life
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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 volume of The Forsyte Saga, wealthy lawyer Soames Forsyte struggles to free himself from a situation he finds almost impossibly awkward, given the divorce laws of his time. Though it is now a dozen or so years since he and his wife Irene split up, the
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