Chambers

In international law. Portions of the ocean included within lines drawn from one promontory to another, or stretches of sea between adjacent headlands, (and called in England the kiny*s chambers, camera! regis,) claimed by the nation on whose coasts they are situated, as places of protection to merchantmen, where all hostilities are to cease* Opinion of Sir Leoline Jenkins, cited Jacobsen's Sea Laws, 416.

1 Peters* Adm. Dec. 29, note. 1 Kent's Com. 30, 31.