Contempt - Law Dictionary Search Results
Cautione admittenda
Cautione admittenda, a writ that lies against a bishop who holds an excommunicated person in prison for contempt, notwithstanding he offers sufficient caution or security to obey the orders and commandment of the church for the
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of Parliament he attends on the peers, and to his custody all peers impeached for any crime or contempt are first committed, Consult May, Parl. Pr.
Breaking of arrestment
Breaking of arrestment, is the contempt of the law committed by an arrestee who disregards the arrestment used in his hands, and pays the
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Commitment
Commitment, (1) the sending a person to prison by warrantor order, either for a crime, contempt, or contumacy [see the (English) Debtors Act, 1869, for the abolition of imprisonment for debt, 32 & 33
Court of record
to be questioned when produced before any court. The power that courts of record enjoy to punish for contempt is a part of their inherent jurisdiction and is essential to enable the courts to administer justice according
De contumace capiendo
Chancery for the commitment of a person pronounced by an Ecclesiastical Court to be contumacious and guilty of contempt. See EXCOMMUNICATION.
Defamation
publicly spoken, that injures another's reputation or good name, holding up of a person to reduce, Scorn or contempt in a respectable an considerable part of the community; may be criminal as well as civil. Includes both
Abuse of process
Abuse of process, Actions manifestly frivolous or brought against good faith will be stayed as an abuse of the process of the court. See, e.g., Edmunds v. Attorney-General, (1878) 47 LJ Ch 345. As to an...
Admonition
a punishment administered by the Presiding Officer of a legislature to an offender for breach of privilege or contempt of the House in case of an offence which is not so grave as to warrant his committal;
Scorn
Extreme and lofty contempt haughty disregard that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object
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