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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 ...
Star Chamber
Star Chamber [chambre des estoylles, Fr.], camera stellata, which see....
Amputation of right hand
Amputation of right hand, an ancient punishment for a blow given in a Superior Court; or for assaulting a judge sitting in the Court. it was also inflicted by the Star Chamber for duelling or striking a blow within the precincts of a royal palace...
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....
La chambre des esteilles
La chambre des esteilles, the Star Chamber, Law French...
Misprision
Misprision [fr. mepris, Fr.], neglect, negligence, or oversight.All such high offences as are under the degree of capital, but nearly bordering thereon, are misprisions; and it is said that a misprision is contained in every treason and felony whatsoever, and that, if the Crown so please, the offender may be proceeded against for the misprision only. And upon the same principle, while the court of Star Chamber existed, it was held that the sovereign might remit a prosecution for treason, and cause the delinquent to be censured in that Court, merely for a high misdemeanour; as in the case of Roger, Earl of Rutland, in 43 Eliz., concerned in Essex's rebellion. Every great misdemeanour, according to Coke, which has no certain term appointed by the law, is sometimes called a misprision.Misprisions are divided in the text-books into two kinds:-(1) Negative, the concealment of what ought to be revealed; such is misprision of treason, the bare knowledge and concealment of treason without any ...
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