Chamber

A room in a house. There may be an estate of freehold in a chamber as distinct and separate from the ownership of the rest of the house; 1 Term 701; Co. Litt. 48 b; Loring v. Bacon, 4 Mass. 576; Proprietors of South Congregational Meetinghouse v. City of Lowell, 1 Mete. (Mass.) 538; Cheeseborough v. Green, 10 Conn. 318, 26 Am. Dec. 396; and ejectment will lie for a deprivation of possession; 1 Term 701; Otis v. Smith, 9 Pick. (Mass.) 293; though the owner thereof does not thereby acquire any interest in the land; Stockwell v. Hunter, 11 Mete. (Mass.) 448, 45 Am. Dec. 220. See Brooke, Abr. Demand 20; Aldrich v. Parsons, 6 N. H. 555; Wusthoff v. Dracourt, 3 Watts (Pa.) 243; 3 Leon. 210. Consult Washburn; Preston, Real Property.

A room in a building used for purposes of a dwelling or of an office or a court The word is also used to designate certain courts, as the Star Chamber, certain legislative bodies, as the Chamber of Deputies, and other public associations, as the Chamber of Commerce, etc.

In old English law. A private repository of monoy; a coffer, v. Camera; Chambers; Chambre.

A room or apartment in a house. A private repository of money; a treasury. Sometimes used to designate a court, a commission, or an association of persons habitually mveting together in an apartment, e. g.,the “star chamber,” “chamler of deputies,” “chamber of commerce.”

A room in a house, used for purposes of a dwelling, of an office, or of a court. See House, 1; Stak-Chambeb; Survey, Of land. Chambers. In London, the offices of barristers. Chambers, or at eham.bers. A private room or other place where parties may be heard and orders made by a judge, in such matters as the law does not require shall be considei-ed in open court or by a full court. Of such are acts done in a court room while the court is not in session. Jurisdiction at chambers Is incidental to and grows out of the jurisdiction of the court itself. It is the power to hear and determine, out of court, such questions arising between the parties to a controversy as might well be determined by the court itself, but which the legislature has seen fit to intrust to the judgment of a single judge, out of court, without requiring them to be brought before the court in actual session. It follows that th« jurisdiction of a judge at chambers cannot go beyond the jurisdiction of the court to > Spies -B. Illinois (The Anarchists' Case), 123 U. S. 168 (Nov. 2, 1887), Waite, C. J.; Hopt v. Utah, 120 id. 436 (1887). 'Hayes v. Missouri, 180 U. S. 70-71 (1887), cases, Field, J. which he belongs, or extend to the matters with which his court has nothing to do.' "A judge at chambers" is simply a judge acting out of court.' See Vacation.

A court; a treasury. judge; any place where he does Chambers, the King's within lines drawn from one the nation claims jurisdiction,

[L.Lat. cam«-a.] A term applied to courts (the Star Chamber, the Exchequer Chamber,) legislative bodies, (Chamber of Peers, Chamber of Deputies,) and other public associations; (Chamber of commerce, &c.)

In old English law. A private repository of money; a coffer. See Cam^a, Vhambre.