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CHAMBERS (the Fr. chambre, from Lat. camera, a room)

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 822 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAU-CHA
CHAMBERS (the Fr. chambre, from Lat. camera, a room) , a
term
  used generally of rooms or apartments, but especially in law of the offices of a lawyer or the semi-private rooms in which
judges
  or judicial
officers
  deal with questions of practice and
other matters not of sufficient importance to be dealt with in
court
 . It is a matter of doubt at what period the practice of exercising
jurisdiction
  " in chambers " commenced in England; there is no statutory sanction before 1821, though the custom can be traced back to the 17th
century
 . An act of 1821 provided for sittings in chambers between terms, and an act of 1822 empowered the sovereign to
call
  upon the
judges
  by warrant to sit in chambers on as many days in vacation as should seem fit, while the Law Terms Act 183o defined the
jurisdiction
  to be exercised at chambers. The Judges' Chambers Act 1867 was the first act, however, to lay down proper regulations for chamber
work
 , and the Judicature Act 1873 preserved that jurisdiction and gave power to increase it as might be directed or authorized by rules of
court
  to be thereafter made. (See CHANCERY; KING'S BENCH, COURT OF.)


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