See also:

• CHAMBERS (the Fr. chambre, from Lat. camera, a room)
• CHAMBERS, EPHRAIM (d. 1740)
• CHAMBERS, GEORGE (1803-1840)
• CHAMBERS, ROBERT (18oz-1871)
• CHAMBERS, SIR WILLIAM (1726-1796)

CHAMBERS (the Fr. chambre, from See also:

• LAT

Lat. See also:

• CAMERA (a Latin adaptation of Gr. Kagapa, an arched chamber)

camera, a See also:

• ROOM

room)  , a See also:

• TERM

term used generally of rooms or apartments, but especially in See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law of the offices of a lawyer or the semi-private rooms in which See also:

• JUDGES, THE BOOK OF

judges or judicial See also:

• OFFICERS

officers See also:

• DEAL

deal with questions of practice and other matters not of sufficient importance to be dealt with in See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court . It is a See also:

• MATTER

matter of doubt at what See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period the practice of exercising See also:

• JURISDICTION
• JURISDICTION, CRIMINAL LAW, DIVORCE

jurisdiction " in See also:

• CHAMBERS (the Fr. chambre, from Lat. camera, a room)
• CHAMBERS, EPHRAIM (d. 1740)
• CHAMBERS, GEORGE (1803-1840)
• CHAMBERS, ROBERT (18oz-1871)
• CHAMBERS, SIR WILLIAM (1726-1796)

chambers " commenced in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England; there is no statutory See also:

• SANCTION (Lat. sanctia, from sancire, to decree or ordain)

sanction before 1821, though the See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom can be traced back to the 17th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . An See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of 1821 provided for sittings in chambers between terms, and an act of 1822 empowered the See also:

• SOVEREIGN

sovereign to See also:

• CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call upon the judges by See also:

• WARRANT (Med. Lat. warantum; O. Fr. garant, warant, derived from O.H.G. root represented in modern German bygewdhren)

warrant to sit in chambers on as many days in vacation as should seem See also:

• FIT

fit, while the Law Terms Act 183o defined the jurisdiction to be exercised at chambers . The Judges' Chambers Act 1867 was the first act, however, to See also:

• LAY

lay down proper regulations for chamber See also:

• WORK

work, and the Judicature Act 1873 preserved that jurisdiction and gave See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power to increase it as might be directed or authorized by rules of court to be thereafter made .