Skip to content

Contempt - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

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

Keep your definitions linked to case research

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

  • Last »

Try the research workspace — 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial