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Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Burrill (1850)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

WIDOW'S. A portion of the effects of a deceased person, reserved for the use of his widow, and consisting of her apparel and the furniture of her bed chamber, is called in London the "widow's chamber." 2 Bl. Comm. 518. Thought by Burrill to be another form of cambium.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

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.