Camera

Lat. [Lat. camera, a vault, or arched roof; an upper gallerj'.] In old European law. A chamber; an apartment in a dwelling house. Facio tibi aulam, ut tu facials mihi cameram; I make you a hall, in consideration of your making me a chamber. Br<ict. fol.

19.

Camera dividitur ab aula; a chamber is separated from a hall. Id. fol.

76.

N<m debet ezire cameram; he ought not to go out of the chamber. Id. fol.

367 b, c. 12. Reg. Jud. 13.

A treasure chamber, or treasury; a chamber with a vaulted roof, for the keeping of the public treasure; {locus in quern infe- Tuntur mulctcB et thesaurus principis.) Spelman, voc.

Cambellanus

This is the definition of the feudists, and other early writers. Locus in quern thesaurus colligttur. Zasius de Feudis, par.

4, num. 7.

Testudo sive fornix

Onuphrius de interp. voc. Fcclesia, cited in Cowell, voc.

Chamberlain.

Hence the modem vault, as a place of deposit for money. See Camerarius, Chamberlain. A private treasury; a place for keeping private funds or monies; a coffer; personal funds, as distinguished from land. This meaning seems to be peculiar to the old English law. An annuity is distinguished from a rent, (although both are termed in Latin annuus redditus, q. v.) as issuing or payable ex camera, and not ex tenemento. Bract, fol.

79 b, 180, 184, 203 b. Peg. Grig. 266.

See Annuity. A crooked plat, or nook of ground. Dufresne, cited in Cowell. The editor of Cowell (A. D. 1701,) makes this the original meaning of the word, deriving it from the Germ, ttam, or ftammev, crooked. But ftammn: seems to have always denoted a vaulted chamber.

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Americ. voc.

Chamber.