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Chambers are quasi-private rooms, in which the judges or masters dispose of points of practice and other matters not sufficiently important to be heard and argued in court. See SUMMONS; ORDER.The jurisdiction of a judge in chambers depends partly on Statutes and partly on the Common Law. An appeal lies to a Divisional Court or to a judge sitting in court according to the practice of the Division of the High Court to which the matter in question in assigned (English) (Jud. Act, 1873, s. 50. See now Jud. Act, 1925, ss. 31(8) and 62). By R. S.C. 1883, Ord. LIV., the masters in the King Bench Division, and the registrars in the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division may exercise the jurisdiction of a judge in chambers (subject to appeal to a judge), except in matters relating to crime or to the liberty of the subject, and certain other matters setout in the order. As to Chambers in the Chancery Division, see Ord. LV....
Judges' Chambers
Judges' Chambers. See CHAMBERS...
Chambers of the King
Chambers of the King (Regi' camer'). The exclusive territorial jurisdiction of the British Crown over the in closed parts of the sea long the coasts of the island of Great Britain has immemorially extended to those bays called the King's chambers: that is, portions of the sea cut off by lines drawn from one promontory to another, Wheat. Int. Law, 234....
star chamber
star chamber 1 cap S&C : an old English court abolished in 1641 that exercised wide civil and criminal jurisdiction under rules of procedure suited to the prerogatives of the king and that was marked by secrecy, the absence of juries, self-incrimination, and an inquisitorial as opposed to accusatorial system of justice 2 : a tribunal or proceeding resembling the Star Chamber esp. in being secretive or arbitrary ...
Exchequer Chamber, Court of
Exchequer Chamber, Court of, a tribunal of error and appeal.First, it existed in former times as a Court of mere debate, such causes from the other Courts being sometimes adjourned into it as the judges upon argument found to be of great weight and difficulty, before any judgment was given upon them in the Court below. It then consisted of all the judges of the three Superior Courts of Common Law, and at times the Lord Chancellor also.Second, it existed as a Court of Error, where the judgments of each of the Superior Courts of Common Law, in all actions whatever, were subject to revision by the judges of the other two, sitting collectively. See 27 Eliz. c. 8 (error from Queen's Bench), and 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 70, s. 8 (error from the three Courts). The composition of this Court consequently admitted of three different combinations, consisting of any two of the Courts below which were not parties to the judgment appealed against. There was no given number required to constitute the ...
Knights of the Chamber
Knights of the Chamber [milites camer', Lat.], those created in the sovereign's chamber in time of peace, not in the field, 2 Inst. 666....
Widow's Chamber
Widow's Chamber. In London the widow of a freeman was, by the custom of the city, entitled to her apparel and the furniture of her bed-chamber, but this custom was abolished by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 94....
chambers
chambers the offices of a judge. Source: Federal Judicial Center ...
Star Chamber
Star Chamber [chambre des estoylles, Fr.], camera stellata, which see....
Chamberer
One who attends in a chamber a chambermaid...
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