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See also:CONTUMACY (See also:Lat. contumacia, obstinacy; derived from the See also:root tem-, as in temnere,' t'o_despise, or possibly from the root tum-, as in tumere, to swell, with anger, &c.) , a stubborn refusal to obey authority, obstinate resistance; particularly, in See also:law, the wilful contempt of the See also:order or See also:summons of a See also:court (see CONTEMPT OF COURT) . In ecclesiastical law, the contempt of the authority of an ecclesiastical court is dealt with by the issue of a See also:writ de contumace capiendo from the court of See also:chancery at the instance of the See also:judge of the ecclesiastical court; this writ took the See also:place of that de excommunicato capiendo in 1813, by an See also:act of See also:George III. c . 127 (see See also:ExcoMMUNICATION) . |
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