Noun | 1. | chamber - a natural or artificial enclosed space |
2. | chamber - an enclosed volume (as the aqueous chamber of the eyeball or the chambers of the heart) | |
3. | chamber - a room where a judge transacts business | |
4. | chamber - a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly; "the upper chamber is the senate" | |
5. | ![]() | |
Verb | 1. | chamber - place in a chamber |
CHAMBER. 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.
Co. Litt. 48, b; Bro. Ab. Demand, 20; 4 Mass. 575; 6 N. H. Rep. 555; 9 Pick.
R. 297; vide 3 Leon. 210; 3 Watts. R. 243.
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.