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Contumacy

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

contumacy


[Latin contumacia, literally, defiance, obstinacy]
: willful disobedience of a court order
con·tu·ma··cious [kÄ n-tü-mā-shəs, -tyü-]
adj




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