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Definition of starchamber in English English dictionary
- {n} a kind of court in England
- It could proceed on mere rumor or examine witnesses; it could apply torture
- It was abolished by the Long Parliament in 1641
- 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
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