KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

CHAMBER SURVEYS

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CHAMPERTY

CHAMBER SURVEYS. 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 of fice 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. CHAMBERDEKINS, 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. CHAMBERLAIN. Keeper of the cham ber. Originally the chamberlain was the keeper of the treasure chamber (camera) of the prince or state; otherwise called "treas urer." Cowell. The name of several high officers of state in England, as the lord great chamberlain of England, lord chamberlain of the household, chamberlain of the exchequer. Cowell; Blount. The word is also used in some American cities as the title of an officer corresponding to "treasurer." CHAMBERS. 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 fic"e, 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 pri vate office of a barrister. In international law. Portions of the sea cut off by lines drawn from one promon tory to another, or included within lines ex tending from the point of one cape to the next, situate on the sea-coast of the same nation, and which are claimed by that na tion as asylums for merchant vessels, and exempt from the operations of belligerents. CHAMBITJM. In old English law. Change, or exchange. Bract, fols. 117, 118. CHAMBRE DEPEINTE. A name an ciently given to St. Edward's chamber, call ed the "Painted Chamber," destroyed by fire with the houses of parliament CHAMP DE MAI. (Lat Campus Mali.) The field or assembly of May. The national CHAMBERLARIA. Ghamberlainship; the office of a chamberlain. Cowell.

assembly of the Franks, held in the month of May. CHAMP BE MARS. (Lat Campus Mar tii.) The field or assembly of March. The national assembly of the Franks, held in the month of March, In the open air. 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 lier, n. 182. CHAMPERT. In old English law. A share or division of land; champerty. In old Scotch law. A gift or bribe, taken by any great man or judge from any person, for delay of just actions, or further ing of wrongous actions, whether it be lands or any goods movable. Skene. CHAMPERTOR. In criminal law. One who makes pleas or suits, or causes them to be moved, either directly or indirectly, and sues them at his proper costs, upon condition of having a part of the gain. One guilty of champerty. St 33 Edw. I. c. 2. CHAMPERTOUS. Of the nature of champerty; affected with champerty. CHAMPERTY. A bargain made by a stranger with one of the parties to a suit, by which such third person undertakes to carry on the litigation at his own cost and risk, in consideration of receiving, if 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. 683; 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. The purchase of an interest in a thing in dispute, with the object of maintaining and taking part in the litigation. 7 Bing. 378. The act of assisting the plaintiff or defendant in a legal proceeding in which the person giving the assistance has no valuable interest, on an agreement that, if the proceeding is successful, the proceeds shall be divided between the plain tiff or defendant, as the case may be, and the assisting person. Sweet. Champerty is the carrying on a suit in the name of another : but at one's own expense, with the view of receiving as compensation a certain share of the avails of the suit. Ogden v. Des Arts. 4 Duer (N. Y.) 275. The distinction between champerty and maintenance lies in the interest which the Interfering party is to have in the issue of the suit. In the former case, he is to receive a share or portion of what may be recovered; in the latter case, he is in no way benefited by the success of the party aided, but simply CHAMPART. In French law.