NOUN
- a former English court that became notorious for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments
How To Use Star Chamber In A Sentence
- In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries this jurisdiction was abandoned by the Chancellor and passed to the Court of Star Chamber.
- When it comes to language, regular readers of the Star Chamber will know that frequent contributor Alan Kennedy is the local expert. Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » GIMME SOME CAW-FEE!
- Mr Huhne, whose performance as a minister has impressed his Tory colleagues, would enhance the coalition credentials of the Star Chamber by seating a second Liberal Democrat on the court of appeal. Spending cuts: When ministers talk of lynch mobs, you know they're scared
- The last word hung in the air, conjuring images of the Star Chamber. Law of Attraction
- prophesyings," or the assemblies of the zealots in private houses, which, she apprehended, had become so many academies of fanaticism; and for this offence she had, by an order of the star chamber, sequestered him from his archiepiscopal function, and confined him to his own house. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
- His account was an instant bestseller and provided much of the impetus for the abolition of the Star Chamber by the Long Parliament in 1641. Remarks On Torture And Secrecy By The Redoubtable Scott Horton.
- In the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries this jurisdiction was abandoned by the Chancellor and passed to the Court of Star Chamber.
- She was hauled before the Star Chamber and the houses ordered demolished.
- If passed, this bill will be yet another of the powers of Star Chamber accrued by the US Government in the name of homeland security: issuing search warrants through secret courts, accumulating personal records without warrant in a provision of the PATRIOT Act renewed by President Obama, and now protecting witnesses from legal recourse when they level dubiously factual charges. Feisal G. Mohamed: "See Something, Say Something" And Impunity for Profiling
- Its extraordinary jurisdiction in civil matters was compared with the extraordinary jurisdiction of the now defunct Star Chamber in criminal matters.
