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Refractory

Obstinate in disobedience contumacious stubborn unmanageable as a refractory child a refractory beast

Immorigerous

Rude uncivil disobedient

Inobedient

Not obedient disobedient

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Contempt of court

Contempt of court, means civil contempt or criminal contempt. --A disobedience to or disregard of the rules, orders, process, or dignity of a Court, which has power to punish

contempt

contempt 1 : willful disobedience or open disrespect of the orders, authority, or dignity of a court or judge acting in a judicial

Vaccination

a child reached the age of 14, shall not be made on a person (s. 3) convicted of disobedience of a similar order as to the same child; and that no proceedings for disobedience to such an

Habere facias possessionem

shall be entitled to sue out the writ on filing an affidavit showing service of the judgment and disobedience thereto. An unsuccessful defendant can be ordered to pay to the plaintiff his costs of obtaining this writ,

Significavit

QBD 381, in which case Lord Penzance in 1880 issued a significavit against the Rev. Mr. Dale for disobedience to his inhibition. Also, another writ, addressed to the judges, commanding them to stay any suit depending between

Sequestration

and sequester the rents, and upon the goods, chattels, and personal estate of a person in contempt for disobedience of a decree or order, and keep the same until the defendant clear his contempt. It has no

Rebellion

taking up of arms traitorously against the Crown, whether by natural subjects or others when once subdued. 2. Disobedience to the process of the courts. See next title. Open, organised, and armed resistance to an established government

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