CHAMBER

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 meeting together in an apartment, e. g., the "star chamber," "cham- ber of deputies," "chamber of commerce."

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. 48b; 4 Mass. 576; 1 Metc. 538; 10 Conn. 318; and ejectment will lie for a deprivation of possession; 1 Term 701; 9 Pick. 293; though the owner thereof does not thereby acquire any interest in the land; 11 Metc. 448. See Brooke, Abr. Demand 20; 6 Ν. Η. 555; 3 Watts 243; 3 Leon. 210. Consult Washburn; Preston, Real Prop- erty.

A room in a house, used for purposes of a dwelling, of an office, or of a court. See HOUSE, 1; STAR-CHAMBER; SURVEY, Of land. Chambers. In London, the offices of barristers. Chambers, or at chambers. 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 considered 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 the jurisdiction of a judge at chambers cannot go beyond the jurisdiction of the court to 1 Spies v. Illinois (The Anarchists' Case), 123 U. S. 168 (Νον. 2, 1887), Waite, C. J.; Hopt v. Utah, 120 id. 436 (1887). Hayes v. Missouri, 120 U. S. 70-71 (1887), cases, Field, J. R. S. § 819; Reynolds v. United States, 98 U. S. 157 (1878). which he belongs, or extend to the matters with which his court has nothing to do.1 "A judge at chambers" is simply a judge acting out of court.2 See VACATION.

A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers. Apartments in a lodging house. "A bachelor's life in chambers." Thackeray. A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber. A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce. A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye. A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court. A chamber pot. [Colloq.] That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; -- formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in breech-loading guns. A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder. A short piece of ornance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades. Air chamber. See Air chamber, in the Vocabulary. -- Chamber of commerce, a board or association to protect the interests of commerce, chosen from among the merchants and traders of a city. -- Chamber council, a secret council. Shak. -- Chamber counsel or counselor, a counselor who gives his opinion in private, or at his chambers, but does not advocate causes in court. -- Chamber fellow, a chamber companion; a roommate; a chum. -- Chamber hangings, tapestry or hangings for a chamber. -- Chamber lye, urine. Shak. -- Chamber music, vocal or instrumental music adapted to performance in a chamber or small apartment or audience room, instead of a theater, concert hall, or chuch. -- Chamber practice (Law.), the practice of counselors at law, who give their opinions in private, but do not appear in court. -- To sit at chambers, to do business in chambers, as a judge.

To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers. To be lascivious. [Obs.]

To shut up, as inn a chamber. Shak. To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun.

To enclose in a room. | To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers. | To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition. | To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber. | To prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy. | To be lascivious.

A surname.

A room or set of rooms | The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble. | A room or set of rooms | A bedroom. | A room or set of rooms | The private office of a judge. | A room or set of rooms | The room used for deliberation by a legislature. | A room or set of rooms | A single law office in a building housing several. | A room or set of rooms | Rooms in a lodging house. | Ellipsis of chamber pot (“a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers”). | The legislature or division of the legislature itself. | Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room. | An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal. | The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge. | One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver. | A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades. | One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.