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Magazine camera

A camera in which a number of plates can be exposed without reloading...


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

To store in or as in a magazine to store up for use...


Magaziner

One who edits or writes for a magazine...


Magazining

The act of editing or writing for a magazine...


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....


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