Contempt of court is the failure of someone to obey a lawful order of a court, disrespect for the judge, or disruption of the proceedings through poor behavior. A judge may impose civil (a fine) or criminal (jail) sanctions for someone found guilty of contempt of court. Typically judges in common law systems have more extensive power to declare someone in contempt than judges in civil law systems.
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like most other quotations, preceded and followed by something
to say that either what preceded or what followed would, if
passage which was extracted, he does not understand Mr Mill
no certain principle of decision, we must go beyond the surface,
admit of several interpretations. In what sense, then, does Mr
with close attention, he means what is rational. But, if he
inconsistencies, unexplained--to lay down a general principle of
syllogistic argument, without pausing to consider whether those
what is irrational; and this is clearly what he does mean: for
the contradictory appearances which he has himself described, to
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with what he has himself stated respecting the situation of the
the persons and property of men, then we must hold that, wherever
exists. If that object be attained both in Denmark and in the
must exist, under whatever disguise of title or name, both in
lives and their possessions under Nero and under the National
proceeds existed both in the despotism of Rome and in the
Denmark and in the United States, and not being found in the
governments, widely differing in their external form, practically
proves a priori that it must be,--a democratic representative
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