Chambers
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In practice
The pri- G vate room or olfice of a judge; any place in which a judge heara motions, signs papers, or does other bustness pertaining to his office, when he is not holding a session of court. H Business so transacted is said to Le done “ip chambers.” The term is also applied, in England, to the private ollive of a barrister. In international law. P[ortions of the sea cut off by lines drawn from one promon- { tory to another, or included within lines extending from the point of one cape to the next, siluate on the sea-coast of the same nation, and which are claimed by that nation as J asylums for merchant vesseis, and exempt from the operations of belligerents.