Von Schmidt v. Widber’s Empirical Analysis

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44 state decisions

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1. “[T]he practice arose of hearing and disposing of such matters at certain hours during “term time” while the court was not in formal session, and subsequently certain hours of each day were fixed, at which one of the judges would hear these matters while the court was actually in session. The motions and orders thus made were said to be heard and disposed of “at chambers,” for the reason that they were heard by the judge at his chambers, rather than in the court room, but the term “chambers” finally became extended so as to include any place, either in or out of the court room, at which a judge may hear applications or make orders while the court is not in session, in matters pending in that court. The distinction between those matters which could be heard in court and those which could be heard at chambers arose from convenience, rather than from any other cause, but they were limited to the subsidiary and incidental steps in practice and procedure, leaving to the court the judicial determination of the issues presented by the pleadings, and which formed a part of the record.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wideman v. Garbarino