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contumacy [Latin contumacia, literally, defiance, obstinacy] : willful disobedience of a court order con·tu·ma··cious [kÄ n-tü-mā-shəs, -tyü-] adj ...
Contumacious
Exhibiting contumacy contemning authority obstinate perverse stubborn disobedient...
Contumacy (contumacia)
Contumacy (contumacia), a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned; or disobedience to the rules and orders of a court....
Contumacy
Stubborn perverseness pertinacious resistance to authority...
Obstinacy
A fixedness in will opinion or resolution that can not be shaken at all or only with great difficulty firm and usually unreasonable adherence to an opinion purpose or system unyielding disposition stubborness pertinacity persistency contumacy...
Refractory
Obstinate in disobedience contumacious stubborn unmanageable as a refractory child a refractory beast...
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 Vict. c. 62, s. 5]. In the county Court, judgment debts which the debtor has the means [Re A Debtor, (1905) 1 KB 374] to, but will not pay, can be enforced by commitment for a term not exceeding six weeks. This procedure can be applied to an award under the Workmen's Compensation Act, 1906 (Bailey v. Plant, 1901 (1) KB 31); see ATTACH-MENT, and R.S.C. Ord. XLIV.; and (2) the sending to prison, pending his trial at Assizes or Quarte, Sessions, by justices of the peace, under the (English) Indictable Offences Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 42), of a person charged with an indictable offence, in a case where the evidence is sufficient....
Contumace capiendo
Contumace capiendo. Excommunication in all cases of contempt in the spiritual courts is discontinued by 53 Geo. 3, c. 127, s. 2, and in lieu thereof, where a lawful citation or sentence has not been obeyed, the judge has power, after a certain period, to pronounce such person contumacious and in contempt, and to signify the same to the Court of Chancery, whereupon a writ de contumace capiendo issues from the High Court of Justice (Chancery Division), 2 & 3 Wm. 4, C. 93; 3 & 4Vict. c. 93, and Clergy Discipline Act, 1892, s. 7. See Ex parte Bell Cox, (1887) 20 QBD 1; CONTEMPT OF COURT....
De contumace capiendo
De contumace capiendo. A writ issued out of the Court of Chancery for the commitment of a person pronounced by an Ecclesiastical Court to be contumacious and guilty of contempt. See EXCOMMUNICATION....
Excommunication
Excommunication, an ecclesiastical interdict or censure, divided into the greater and the lesser; by the greater a person was excluded from the communion of the church and the company of the faithful, and was rendered incapable of any legal act; by the lesser he was merely debarred from participation in the Sacraments.See No. 33 of the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion as to avoiding an excommunicated person 'until he be openly reconciled by penance, and received into the church by a judge that hath authority thereto'; Canon 112, to the effect that the minister and churchwardens shall yearly within 40 days after Easter exhibit to the Bishop or his Chancellor the names and surnames of all the parishioners, as well men as women, which being of the age of sixteen years received not the Communion at Easter before; and Jenkins v. Cook, (1876) 1 PD 80, in which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council admonished a vicar to refrain from refusing to administer the Communion to a parishioner....
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