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Civil contempt   /sˈɪvəl kəntˈɛmpt/   Listen
Civil contempt

noun
1.
A failure to follow a court order that benefits someone else.





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"Civil contempt" Quotes from Famous Books



... but could not rouse him. At last a person for whose narrow attainments and simplicity he had a profound, though, to do him justice, a civil contempt, ventured to his rescue. Mrs. Bassett went crying to her father, and told him she feared the worst if Richard's mind could not be diverted from the Huntercombe estate and his hatred of Sir Charles and Lady Bassett, which had been the great misfortune ...
— A Terrible Temptation - A Story of To-Day • Charles Reade


Words linked to "Civil contempt" :   contempt of court, law, jurisprudence


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