1) Inquisitional court 2) Play by Noël Coward 3) Secret court 4) Secretive tribunal
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The Star Chamber (Latin: Camera stellata) was an English court of law that sat at the royal Palace of Westminster from the late 15th century until 1641. It was made up of Privy Councillors, as well as common-law judges and supplemented the activities of the common-law and equity courts in both civil and criminal matters. The court was set up to en...
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[play] Star Chamber is a one act play by Noël Coward, one of ten that make up Tonight at 8:30, a cycle written to be performed in alternating groups of three plays, across three evenings. In the introduction to a published edition of the plays, Coward wrote, `A short play, having a great advantage over a long one in that it can sustain a m...
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• (n.) 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 Par...
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In English history, a civil and criminal court, named after the star-shaped ceiling decoration of the room in the Palace of Westminster, London, where its first meetings were held. Created in 1487...
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a central court in London from the late fifteenth century to 1641; it investigated and pronounced judgment on a wide range of complaints mostly brought by private individuals concerning, eg, breaches of order, riots, assaults, abuses of office; also acted as a disciplinary court hearing offences against the government (such as publishing seditious...
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Star'-cham`ber noun [ 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 Hebrew
shetar , pron.
shtar ) were kept; or from the
stars with which the cei...
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Eng. law. A court which formerly had great jurisdiction and power, but which was abolished by stat. 16, C. I., on account of its usurpations and great unpopularity. It consisted of several of the lords spiritual and temporal, being privy counsellors, together with two judges of the courts of common law, without the intervention of a jury. Their leg...
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The Star Chamber was an English court founded in 1487 by Henry VII to punish the misdemeanours of sheriffs and juries, and all illegal assemblies and disturbances. It had jurisdiction over all cases civil and criminal except capital offences. However, under Laud it was miss-used and torture was regularly used to obtain confessions. The Star Chamber...
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Originally a Privy Council court abolished in 1641, now a Conservative ministerial group responsible for setting government spending limits.
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[
n] - a former English court that became notorious for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments
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noun a former English court that became notorious for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments
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In English history, a civil and criminal court, named after the star-shaped ceiling decoration of the room in the Palace of Westminster, London, where its first meetings were held. Created in 1487 by Henry VII, the Star Chamber comprised some 20 or 30 judges. It was abolished in 1641 by the Long Parliament. The Star Chamber became notorious und...
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a former court of inquisitorial and criminal jurisdiction in England that sat without a jury and that became noted for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments, abolished 1641. · any tribunal, committee, or the like, which proceeds by arbitrary or unfair methods.
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