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  • CHAMBER
    A room or apartment in a house. A private repository of money; a treasury. Sometimes used to designate a court a commission, or an association of persons habitually meeting together in an apartment e. g.t the "star chamber," "chamber of deputies." "chamber of commerce."
  • CHAMBER OF ACCOUNTS
    In French law. A sovereign court, of great antiquity, in France, which took cognizance of and registered the accounts of the king's revenue; nearly the same as the English court of exchequer. Enc Brit.
  • CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    An association (which may or may not be incorporated) comprising the principal merchants, manufacturers, and traders of a city, designed for convenience in buying, selling, and exchanging goods, aud to foster the commercial and industrial interests of the place.
  • CHAMBER, WIDOW'S
    A portion of the effects of a deceased person, reserved for the use of his widow, and consisting of her apparel, and the furniture of her bed-chamber, is called in London the "widow's chamber." 2 Bl. Comm. 518.
  • CHAMBER BUSINESS
    A term applied to all such judicial business as may properly be transacted by a judge at his chambers or elsewhere, as distinguished from such as must be done by the court in session. In re Neagle (C. C.) 39 Fed. 855. 5 ' L. R. A. 78.
  • CHAMBER SURVEYS
    At an early day in Pennsylvania, surveyors often made drafts on paper of pretended surveys of public lands, and returned them to the land office as duly surveyed, instead of going on the ground and establishing lines and marking corners; and these false and fraudulent pretenses of surveys never actually More...
  • CHAMBERDEKINS, OR CHAMBER DEACONS
    In old English law. Certain poor Irish scholars, clothed in mean habit, and living under no rule; also beggars banished from England. (1 Hen. V. cc 7. 8.) Wharton.
  • CHAMBERLAIN
    Keeper of the chamber. Originally the chamberlain was the keeper of the treasure chamber (camera) of the prince or state; otherwise called "treasurer." Cowell. The name of several high officers of state in England,-as the lord great chamberlain of England, lord chamberlain of the household, chamberlain of the exchequer. Cowell; More...
  • CHAMBERLARIA
    Chamberlainshlp; the office of a chamberlain. Cowell.
  • CHAMBERS
    In practice. The private room or office of a judge; any place in which a judge hears motions, signs papers, or does other business pertaining to his office, when he is not holding a session of court Business so transacted is said to be done "in chambers." In re Neagle More...
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