In ecclesiastical law. The part of a church in which tlie communion table stands; it belongs to the rector or the impropriator. 2 Broom & II. Comm. 420
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A person who fights a corn-bat in his own cause, or in place of another. The person who, in the trial by battel, fought either for the tenant or demandant. 3 Bl. Comm. 339
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In criminal law. An accl-dent; an unexpected, unforeseen, or unin-tended consequence of an act; a fortuitous event. The opposite of Intention, design, or contrivance
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of the uature of champerty; affected with champerty
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A bargain made by a stranger with one of the parties to a suit, by which such third person undertakes to curry on the litigation at his own cost and risk, in consideration of receivlng, lf he wins the suit, a part of the land or other subject sought to be recovered by the action. Small v. Mott, 22 wend. (N. Y.) 405; Jewel v. Neidy, 61 Iowa, 299, 16 N. W. 141; weakly v. Hall, 13 ohio, 175. 42 Am. Dec. 194; Poe v. Davis, 29 Ala. 083; Gilman v. Jones. 87 Ala. 691, 5 South. 785, 7 South. 48, 4 L. R. A. 113: Torrence v. Shedd, 112 111. 466; Cas-serleigh v. wood, 119 Fed. 308, 56 C. C. A. 212
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In criminal law. one who makes pleas or suits, or causes them to be moved, either directly or indirectly, and sues them at hls proper costs, upon condition of having a part of the gain, one guilty of champerty. SL 33 Edw. I. c. 2
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(Lat Campus Martii.) The field or assembly of March. The national assembly of the Franks, held in the month of March, in the open air
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In French law. The grant of a piece of land by the owner to an-other, on condition that the latter would de-liver to him a portion of the crops. 18 Toul-ller, n. 182
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A name anciently given to St. Edward’s chamber, call-ed the “Painted Chamber,” destroyed by fire with the houses of parliament
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(Lat. Campus Maii.) The field or assembly of May. The national
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In practice. The pri-vate room or office of a judge; any place in which a judge hears motions, signs papers, or does other business pertaining to his of-flce, when he is not holding a session of court. Business so transacted is said to be done “in chambers.” In re Neagle (C. C.) 39 Fed. 855, 5 L. R. A. 78; Von Schmidt v. Widber, 99 Cal. 511, 34 Pac. 109; Hoskins v. Baxter, 64 Minn. 226, 66 N. W. 969. The term is also applied, in England, to the prl-vate office of a barrister
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In old English iaw. Change, or exchange. Bract, fols. 117, 118
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Keeper of the cham-her. originally the chamberlain was the keeper of the treasure chamber (camera) of the prince or state; otherwise called “treas-urer.” Cowell
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Chamberla inship; the office of a chamberlain. Cowell
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At an early day in Pennsylvania, surveyors often made drafts on paper of pretended surveys of pub-lic lands, and returned them to the land office as duly surveyed, Instead of going on the ground and establishing lines and marking corners; and these false and fraudulent pre-tenses of surveys never actually made were called “chamber surveys.” Schraeder Min. & Mfg. Co. v. Packer, 129 U. S. 688, 9 Sup. St. 385, 32 L. Ed. 760
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or CHAMBER DEACONS. In old English law. Certain poor Irish scholars, clothed in mean habit, and living under no rule; also beggars ban-ished from England. (1 Hen. V. cc. 7. 8.) wharton
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An association (which may or may uot be incor-porated) comprising the principal merchants, manufacturers, aud traders of a city, design-ed for convenience in buying, selling, and exchanging goods, and to foster the commercial and industrial interests of the place
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A term ap-plied to all such judiclal business ns may properly be transacted by a judge nt his chambers or elsewhere, as distinguished from such as must be done by the court in session. In re Neagle (C. C.) 39 Fed. 855. 5 L. R. A. 78
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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 nn apartment, e. g„ the “star chamber,” “cham-ber of deputies." "chamber of commerce.”
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In French law. A sovereign court, of great antiquity, in France, which took cognizance of and registered the accounts of the king’s revenue; nearly the same as the Engllsh court of exchequer. Enc. Brit
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1. To object or except to; to prefer objections to a person, right, or Instrument; to formally call lnto ques-tion tbe capability of a person for a particular function, or the existence of a right claimed, or the sufficiency or validity of an Instrument
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A summons or invitation, given by one person to anoth-er, to engage in a personal combat; a re-quest to fight a duel. A criminal offense. See Stepb. Crim. Dig. 40; 3 East, 581; State v. Perkins, 6 Blackf. (Ind.) 20
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In English parliamentary practice. In the commons, this of-flcer, always a member, is elected by. the house on the assembling of every new par-llament. when the house is in committee on bills introduced by the government, or.in committee of ways and means, or supply, or in committee to consider preliminary resolu-tions, it is his duty to preside
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CHALDERN, or CHAL-DER. Twelve sacks of coals, each holding three bushels, weighing about a ton and a half. In wales they reckon 12 barrels or
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