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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, and to […]

A city-wide, regional, or country-wide business group focused to protect and promote the economic interests of its members through legislative and other means. The International Chamber of Commerce in Paris […]

At an early day in Pennsylvania, surveyors often made drafts on paper of pretended surveys of public lands, and returned tliem to the land office as duly surveyed, instead of […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

Chamberlainship; the office of a chamberlain . Cowell.

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 […]

In old English law . Change, or exchange. Bract, fols. 117, 118

A name anciently given to St. Edward’s chamber, called the “Painted Chamber,” destroyed by fire with the houses of parliament

(Lat. Campus Mali.) The field or assembly of May. The national assembly of the Franks, held in the month of May

(Lat. Campus Mar- tii.) The field or assembly of March. The national assembly of the Franks, held in the month of March, in the open air.

In French law . The grant of a piece of land by the owner to another, on condition that the latter would deliver to him a portion of the crops. […]

In old English law . A share or division of land; champerty. In old Scotch law . A gift or bribe, taken by any great man or judge from any […]

In criminal law . One who makes pleas or suits, or causes them to be moved, either directly or indirectly, and sues them at his proper costs, upon condition of […]

Of the nature of champerty ; affected with champerty

A bargain made by a stranger with one of the parties to a suit, by which such third person undertakes to carry on the litigation at his own cost and […]

A person who fights a combat in his own cause, or in place of another. The person who, in the trial by battel, fought either for the tenant or demandant. […]

An ancient officer, whose duty it was to ride armed cap-a-pie. into Westminster Hall at the coronation, while the king was at dinner, and, by the proclamation of a herald, […]

In criminal law . An accident ; an unexpected, unforeseen, or uuin- tended consequence of an act; a fortuitous event . The opposite of intention, design, or contrivance. There is […]

One determined by hazard or lot, and not by the deliberate understanding and agreement of the jury. Goodman v. Cody, 1 Wash. T. 335. 34 Am. Rep. 808; Dixon v. […]

In criminal law . A sudden affray. This word is sometimes applied to any kind of homicide by misadventure , but in strictness it is applicable to such killing only […]