Disobedience - Law Dictionary Search Results
Insubjection
Lack of subjection or obedience a state of disobedience as to government
Contumacy (contumacia)
Contumacy (contumacia), a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned; or disobedience to the rules and orders of a court.
Insubmission
Lack of submission disobedience noncompliance
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Punish
suffer in retribution to chasten as to punish traitors with death a father punishes his child for willful disobedience
Antinomy
against, and vouos, law, Gk.], a contradiction between two laws or an opposition to an express law, by disobedience or by a directly contrary practice, Encyc. Londin
Attachment
person guilty of a contempt, who is punishable in a summary manner. Contempts may be thus classed. (1) Disobedience to the King's writs; (2) Contempt in the face of a Court; (3) Contemptuous words or writings concerning
Breach of privilege
which obstruct the House in the performance of its functions and thereby lower dignity and authority such as disobedience of its legitimate orders or libel upon itself or its member or officers which are called contempt of
Civil contempt
Civil contempt, means wilful disobedience to any judgment, decree, direction, order, writ or other process of a court or wilful breach of an
Continuing offence
which continues until the rule or its requirement is obeyed or complied with. On every occasion that such disobedience or non-compliance occurs and reoccurs, there is the offence committed. The distinction between the two kinds of offences
Contumacious
Exhibiting contumacy contemning authority obstinate perverse stubborn disobedient
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