- Look up
contumacy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Contumacy is a
stubborn refusal to obey
authority or,
particularly in law, the
willful contempt...
- to
acknowledge the
independence of the Americans, and to
punish their contumacy by the
indefinite prolongation of a war
which promised to be eternal."...
- ****ctive
relief and the
habeas corpus remedy. The
Court may
imprison for
contumacy, bad-faith litigation, and
failure to obey a writ of mandamus. Judicial...
- "unedifying" and even idolatrous. King
James I,
reacting against the
perceived contumacy of his
Presbyterian Scottish subjects,
adopted "No Bishop, no King" as...
- to
acknowledge the
independence of the Americans, and to
punish their contumacy by the
indefinite prolongation of a war
which promised to be eternal."...
- person,
before he can be punish'd,
ought to be present; and if
absent by
contumacy, he
ought to be
summoned and make default." Further, in 1824, we find...
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Lucius III
issued the bull Ad
Abolendam (1184),
which condemned heresy as
contumacy toward ecclesiastical authority. The bull
Vergentis in
Senium in 1199...
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bleed Nawab Bai
twice a year. In 1687,
Muhammad Muazzam suspected of
contumacy with
Sultan Abul Hasan, the
ruler of Golkonda. Her
advice and even personal...
- the
squadron to
effectively engage the French.
After several days, the
contumacy of Benbow's
captains in
refusing to fight, and his own injuries, forced...
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wildly on the high mountains,
acted thence with the more
outrage and
contumacy. The
ground of
their late commotion, not to
mention the
savage genius...
