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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,” “chamber of deputies,” “chamber of commerce.”

Law Dictionary – Alternative Legal Definition

A room in a house. 2. It was formerly hold that no freehold estate could be had in a chamber, but it was afterwards ruled otherwise. When a chamber belongs to one person, and the rest of the house with the land is owned by another the two estates are considered as two separate but adjoining dwelling house’s. 3 . By chamber is also understood the place where an assembly is held; and, by the use of a figure, the assembly itself is called a chamber.

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