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Wilful disobedience

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Contempt of court

disobedience to the Court, by acting in opposition to the authority, justice and dignity thereof. It signifies a wilful disregard or disobedience of the Court's order; it also signifies such conduct as tends to bring the authority

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

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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

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