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direct contempt
direct contempt see contempt
contempt
are designed to punish as well as to coerce compliance. direct contempt : contempt committed in the presence of the court or
Contempt of court
to punish for such offence by committal. Contempts are either direct, which only insult or resist the powers of the Court, … Contempt of court, means civil contempt or criminal contempt. --A disobedience
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Civil contempt
Civil contempt, means wilful disobedience to any judgment, decree, direction, order, writ or other process of a court or wilful
Monition
7th Edn., p. 1022. Monition, a summons or citation; a direction by an ecclesiastical judge to a defendant to abstain from … to appear in court as a defendant or to answer contempt charges. 3. A formal Notice from a bishop demanding that
subpoena
a congressional committee) under a penalty (as a charge of contempt) for failure to comply compare summons also subpena vt -naed
High Commission Court
offences, contempt's, and enormities. The powers of this tribunal were directed to tyrannical and unconstitutional pur-poses; it was therefore abolished by
Court
issue to any person or authority, including any government, orders, directions or writs including the writs in the nature of habeas … for the purposes of ss. 2 and 3 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, K. Sham Rao v. Assistant Charity
Blasphemy
etc.), commonly called 'The Blasphemy Act,' though it is only directed against apostasy, but is cumulative upon the common law, R. … profane scoffing at the Holy Scripture, and exposing it to contempt and ridicule. It is an indictable misdemeanour at Common Law,
order
command issued by a military superior 4 a : a direction regarding the party to whom a negotiable instrument shall be … by the court [violated a court and was jailed for contempt] cease-and-de·sist order [sēs-ənd-di-zist-, -sist-] : an order from a court
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