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A chamber, room, or apartment in old English Law. A judge's chamber. Treasury, chest, or coffer.

To be in camera is to be in private or in chambers.


See also: chamber


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Aragonese rulers took seriously the idea that the Jews were their servi regie camerae, a term whose use--in Iberia itself one hears of servi Regis--reverts to its thirteenth-century inventor, Frederick II.
All these diverse ideas were tied together in the later medieval definition of Jewish status as "servitudo camerae" sometimes "servi camerae," "serfs of the chamber [treasury]," somewhat akin to the position of the villein in feudal structure, that is, having security through custom, subject however to his ruler's will.
Franca Trincheri Camiz and William Wallace kindly inform me that they have found Roberto's will of 1 September 1560 which mentions that he has a bottega in the rione Ponte near the Palazzo Alberini (Archivo di Stato di Roma, Notai Auditor Camerae 6183, fols.
 
 
 
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