Contempt - Law Dictionary Search Results
Purging contempt
Purging contempt, atoning for, or clearing oneself from contempt of court (q.v.).
Contemptibility
The quality of being contemptible contemptibleness
Contempt of Parliament
Contempt of Parliament. Any violation of the privileges of either House
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Contemptibly
In a contemptible manner
Contemptibleness
The state or quality of being contemptible or of being despised
Wilful disobedience
disobedience' to a writ issued by a court constitutes civil contempt, though mere failure to obey the writ may not constitute
Sedition
publishing any seditious libel 'tending to bring into hatred or contempt' the person of the sovereign; or the Government and constitution
Contumace capiendo
Contumace capiendo. Excommunication in all cases of contempt in the spiritual courts is discontinued by 53 Geo. 3,
Excommunication
the Ecclesiastical Courts were enforced; but in all cases of contempt of Court it has now been abolished, and in lieu
Misprision
of negative misprision, 4 Steph. Com. (2) Positive, otherwise denominated contempts of high misdemeanours, such as the mal-administration of such high
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