Cambium

Change; exchange. Applied in the civil law to exchange of lands, as well as of money or debts.

Du Cange

Cambium reale or manuale was the term generally used to denote the technical common-law exchange of lands; cambium locale, mercantile, or trajectitium, was used to designate the modern mercantile contract of exchange, whereby a man agrees, in consideration of a sum of money paid him in one place, to pay a like sum in another place.

Poth. de Change, note 12; Story, Bills, I 2 et seq.

CAMERA (Law Lat.; Lat. camera, a vault or arched roof; an upper gallery; Spanish, camara). In Did European Law, A chamber; an apartment in a dwelling house. A treasure chamber, or treasury; a chamber with a vaulted roof, for the keeping of the public treasure. A private treasury; a place for keeping

In Old English Practice

A judge's chamber.

Dyer, 69b. (Fr. Ed.); Id. 140b.

CAMERA REGIS (Lat. the chambers of the king). A term formerly applied especially to harbors, and generally to all the harbors or ports of the kingdom.

Cowell.