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Monition
Admonition. 2. Civil & Maritime law. A summons to appear in court as a defendant or to answer contempt charges. 3. A formal Notice from a bishop demanding that an offence within the clergy be corrected, Black's … within the clergy be corrected, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1022. Monition, a summons or citation; a direction by an ecclesiastical judge to a defendant to abstain from practices contrary to ecclesiastical law; see Dale's case,
subpoena
served to appear (as in court or before a congressional committee) under a penalty (as a charge of contempt) for failure to comply compare summons also subpena vt -naed -na·ing : to call before a court or
High Commission Court
and all manner of errors, heresies, schisms, abuses, offences, contempt's, and enormities. The powers of this tribunal were directed to tyrannical and unconstitutional pur-poses; it was therefore abolished by 16 Car. 1, c. 11, 5 Reeves, 215.
Official solicitor
Chancery Act, 1860 (20 & 23 Vict. c. 149), s. 2, the duty of visiting prisoners committed for contempt, and he may be assigned as solicitor to pauper litigants, and acts as guardian ad litem to persons
Blasphemy
contumelious reproaches of our Saviour Christ. Also, all profane scoffing at the Holy Scripture, and exposing it to contempt and ridicule. It is an indictable misdemeanour at Common Law, see Reg. v. Ramsay & Foote, (1993) 15 … Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Criminal Law (Offences against Peace, etc.), commonly called 'The Blasphemy Act,' though it is only directed against apostasy, but is cumulative upon the common law, R. v. Carlile, (1819) 3 B. & Ald. 167,
Privilege
from such high authority, might become the subject of proceedings in a Court of law; the power of directing the Attorney-General to prosecute persons accused of offences against the law or affecting the privilege of Parliament; and … seizures, under process from the courts of justice; this, however, does not extend to indictable offences, to actual contempts of the courts of justice, or to proceedings in bank-ruptcy. Members of Parliament are exempt from serving the
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