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Home Dictionary Name: camera lucidaCamera lucida
An instrument which by means of a prism of a peculiar form or an arrangement of mirrors causes an apparent image of an external object or objects to appear as if projected upon a plane surface as of paper or canvas so that the outlines may conveniently traced It is generally used with the microscope...
Camera
Camera [fr. kam'pa, Gk.], the judge's chamber in Serjeants' Inn, Ken. Glos.--means room, chamber, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.The judge's private room behind the court.A trial is said to take place in camera when the public are excluded from the court.No criminal trial can take place in camera. Certain kinds of civil actions in the Chancery Division are heard in camera, e.g., cases concerning secret processes of manufacture.It has recently been decided (contrary to what was commonly supposed to be the law) that no nullity suit or other matrimonial cause, whatever its nature, can be heard in camera unless justice cannot otherwise be administered; see Scott v. Scott, 1913 AC 417, where the whole question of hearings in camera is discussed at length by the House of Lords.In a trial under the (English) Official Secrets Act, by the 1920 Act (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 75), s. 8, the public maybe excluded during part of the hearing (in certain cases) but the verdict must be pronounced in public....
in camera
in camera [New Latin, literally, in a chamber] : in private ;esp : in a judge's chambers [the judge reviewed the sensitive material in camera] [an in camera proceeding] compare open court ...
Camera
A chamber or instrument having a chamber Specifically The camera obscura when used in photography See Camera and Camera obscura...
In camera
In camera, means 'in a chamber'. (1) In the judge's private chambers. (2) In the courtroom with all spectators excluded. (3) Taken when Court is not in session, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 763.In camera, referred in Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 (70 of 1971), s. 7(1).See CAMERA....
Sittings in camera
Sittings in camera. See CAMERA....
Magazine camera
A camera in which a number of plates can be exposed without reloading...
Camera Stellata
Camera Stellata, the Star Chamber. Its authority was enlarged and confirmed by Rot. Parl. 3 Hen. 7, n. 17, and abolished in the reign of Charles I. a little before the commencement of the civil wars, Hume, iv. 96....
Kodak
A kind of portable photographic camera esp adapted for snapshot work in which a succession of negatives is made upon a continuous roll of sensitized film originally a trademark name of the Eastman Kodak Company but from early 1900s through the 1930s it was popularly applied to almost any hand camera...
Open Court
Open Court. Every Court of Justice is open to every subject of the King, Scott v. Scott, 1913 AC 417 (440). By statute the place where justices summarily convict is an open Court [(English) Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1848, s. 12], but not so the place where they commit a prisoner for trial at assizes or sessions (Indictable Offences Act, 1848, s. 19). Whether a coroner's court is an open Court is a matter of doub if it is not a Court of Justice; it is submitted that it is not [see Jervis on Coroners, citing Garnett v. Ferrand, (1827) 6 B&C 611]; the general rule is that all courts of justice are open to all so long as there is room see Scott v. Scott, ubi supra, where the whole question of hearing cases in camera is discussed. See also R. v. Gov. of Lewes Prison, (1917) 2 KB 254; and McPherson v. McPherson, 1936 AC 177.Sessions Court holding trial within jail premises is an 'open court', Kehar Singh v. State (Delhi Admn.), AIR 1988 SC 1883: (1988) 3 SCC 609 (703, 711): (1988) Supp 2 SCR...
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