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Star-chamber

Star-chamber Meaning & Definition
Star-chamber Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Star-chamber?

[n] a former English court that became notorious for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments

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Star-chamber In Webster's Dictionary

\Star"-cham`ber\, n. [So called (as conjectured by Blackstone) from being held in a room at the Exchequer where the chests containing certain Jewish comtracts and obligations called starrs (from the Heb. shetar, pron. shtar) were kept; or from the stars with which the ceiling is supposed to have been decorated.] (Eng. Hist.) An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed on mere rumor or examine witnesses; it could apply torture. It was abolished by the Long Parliament in 1641. --Encyc. Brit.

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