Chambers A fancy word for a judge's office. It's usually close to the courtroom so that the judge can enter the court from behind the bench and not encounter people on the way.
CHAMBERS - A judge's office is referred to as her chambers. Settlement conferences and adoptions are usually held in her chambers.
Chambers
(n) Chamber is the office of the judge, speaker, presidor or chairman of a legislative council meeting etc which is used as the place for settlement, short conference etc to settle issues connected with his official duty. Eg.
Chambers: A judge's office.
Charge to the jury: The judge's instructions to the jury concerning the law that applies to the facts of the case on trial.
Chambers: A judge's office.
Change of Venue: A change in the location of a trial, usually granted to avoid prejudice against one of the parties.
chambers - A judge's private office in the courthouse.
change of venue - The removal of a suit begun in one county or district to another for trial, or from one court to another in the same county or district.
Chambers -A judge's private office. A hearing in chambers takes place in the judge's office outside of the presence of the jury and the public.
Change of venue -Moving a lawsuit or criminal trial to another place for trial. (See venue.) ...
chambers: A judge's office.
capital offense: A crime punishable by death.
case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
Chambers
A judge's office, typically including work space for the judge's law clerks and secretary.
Champerty
An agreement to finance another's lawsuit in exchange for a portion of the judicial award.
chambersA judge's private office in the courthouse.
chargeThe judge's instructions to jury on it duties, on the law involved in the case and on how the law in the case must be applied. The charge is always given just before jury deliberations.
Chambers: The private office of a judge.
Change of beneficiary: Switching a bequest or beneficial interest from one person to another.
Chambers
A judge's private office, where a hearing can be conducted.
Check
A draft or order to pay money.
chambers - A judge's office.
Change of venue - moving a lawsuit or criminal trial to another place for trial.
chambers: A judge's office. Also usually where the judge's clerks work.
change of venue: When a civil or criminal case is moved from one court jurisdiction to another. (See venue.) ...
CHAMBERS: A judge's office where he conducts business not requiring a jury.
CHANGE OF VENUE: The removal of a suit begun in one county or district, to another, for trial.
chambers A judge's private office; proceedings conducted in the judge's office are said to be conducted in chambers.
change of venue The transfer of a suit begun in one county to another county for trial. See further explanation under venue.
CHAMBERS, practice. When a judge decides some interlocutory matter, which has arisen in the course of the cause, out of court, he is said to make such decision at his chambers.
Term: Chambers
Definition: A judge's private office, where a hearing can be conducted.
Term: Check
Definition: A draft or order to pay money.
Chambers gave varying dates for the time when he broke with the Communist party; a point that was to prove important in his later accusations against Hiss.
in chambers
adj. referring to discussions or hearings held in the judge's off...
in extremis
(in ex-tree-miss) adj. from Latin, facing imminent death.
Garvin v Chambers 195 Cal 212
Sims v. Board of Trustees, Holly Springs Municipal Separate School District 414 So.2d 435
Young v. Mississippi State Tax Commision 635 So. 2d 869
Sauders Industries v IWA 70 LAC 4th 316 (1998) ...
Latin for "in chambers." A legal proceeding is "in camera" when a hearing is held before the judge in her private chambers or when the public is excluded from the courtroom.
In other words, at the far end of every courtroom is an area called "the bench", reserved for judicial officials, an area that has its own doors that lead to chambers within the courthouse.
Chambers: Judge's personal rooms, where he may hear matters in private.
Charge: Form of security for payment of a debt.
Chattels: Moveable items of property which are neither land nor permanently attached to land or a building.
in camera - In chambers; in private. A judicial proceeding is said to heard in camera either when the hearing is had before the judge in his private chambers or when all spectators are excluded from the courtroom.
There was a hall in which its members dined in common; there was the nucleus of a library; there were also dormitories or chambers in which during termtime lawyers lived celibately, leaving their wives in the country.
An in camera interview with a child is the judge speaking with the child in chambers, with the child's attorney (formerly called the law guardian) present. A court reporter must also be present to take down all statements and testimony.
<four other judges met in my chambers R. H. Bork> <a hearing in chambers>
2 a : a hall for the meetings of a deliberative, legislative, or judicial body or assembly <to run back into the House ~ Tip O'Neill> ...
They are called the Opposition because they sit on the benches opposite the Government in the House of Commons and House of Lords Chambers. The largest of the Opposition parties is known as Her Majesty's Opposition.
In Camera - in a judge's chambers, outside the presence of a jury and the public.
Indictment - a formal written accusation charging one or more people with a felony. It is submitted to a grand jury by the prosecuting attorney.
In Camera: In a judge's chambers; in private.
In Camera Inspection: Judge's private inspection of a document prior to his or her ruling on its admissibility or use at trial.
IN CAMERA: Latin for "in chambers." Refers to a hearing or inspection of documents that takes places in private, often in a judge's chambers.
In Camera: When proceedings are held in the chambers of a judge without the participating parties. This is usually the procedure followed when children testify.
A qualified lawyer. They are asked to work on cases by solicitors, not directly by the public. They can do cases in all courts. They work from chambers, are self-employed sole traders and wear wigs and gowns in certain courts (UK)
Bench trial ...
Pretrial Conference A meeting of all parties and counsel with the trial judge, sometimes held in the judge's chambers.
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