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Originating summons

Originating summons, a summons without writ, returnable in the chambers of a judge of the High Court. summonses of this description are very frequently issued in the Chancery

Badger sett

Badger sett, connotes a system of tunnels and chambers, constructed and currently used by a badger or badgers and the entrance holes to those tunnels and chambers,

Enlargement or abridgement of time

that applications for condonation of delay in filing special leave petition are excepted from the business of a Chamber Judge. The natural presumption is that but for the exception the Rule would have included also applications for

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Hell

Hell, a place under the Exchequer Chamber, where the king's debtors were confined, Richard. Dict

For

It also bears the sense of 'appropriate' or 'adapted to'; 'suitable to purpose'; vide Black's Legal Dictionary, Indian Chamber of Commerce v. C.I.T., AIR 1976 SC 348: (1976) 1 SCC 324: (1976) 1 SCR 830.

Floor of the House

Floor of the House, is part of the legislative chamber which is technically 'within the House' i.e. between the bar of the House and the Speaker's chair. Debate

Fee-simple

and other hereditaments as well as in personalty, as an annuity or dignity, and also in an upper chamber, though the lower buildings and soil belong to another. Littleton, in his Tenures (1. i., c. 1, s.

Criminal Charge

consider, Regina (Mudie) v. Dover Magistrates' Ct (CA), (2003) 2 WLR 1344. The court concludes as did the chamber that the nature of the charges together with the nature and severity of the penalties, were such that

Divan

Divan [an Arabic or Turkish word], a council-room, a state-chamber, a raised bench or cushion.

Discharge of a jury

by another jury. See Winsor v. The Queen, (1866) LR 1 QB 289 (390), in which the Exchequer Chamber held this upon writ of error in a trial for murder in which the jury had declared at

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