Attachment will be granted in England against peers and members of parliament only for such gross contempts as rescues, disobedience to the sovereign's writs and the like.
But the mayors of the cities and corporate towns to be let run in so manifest contempts I do not wish.
Forbeare me There's a great Spirit gone, thus did I desire it: What our contempts doth often hurle from vs, We wish it ours againe.
Sir the Contempts thereof are as touching mee Fer.
It is then adjudged that the receiver did commit contemptsof court, and that for the said contempts he be imprisoned in the county jail of the county of Alameda, California, for the period of one year.
Congress immediately passed such a law, and nocontempts have occurred since in the United States courts.
It is not however to be inferred that the right of either house of parliament to commit persons, even not of their own body, to prison, for contempts or breaches of privilege, ought to be called in question.
I am far from subscribing to all the latitude of the doctrine of attachments for contempts of the king's courts of Westminster, especially the King's Bench, as it is sometimes stated, and it has been sometimes practised.
I am myself far from being convinced that commitment for contempts by a house of parliament, or by the highest court of judicature in Westminster Hall, either ought to be, or are thus wholly privileged from all examination and appeal.
Hath Giant Trade in dungeons slain All great contempts of mean-got gain And hates of inward stain, Fair Lady?
What our contempts doth often hurl from us We wish it ours again; the present pleasure, By revolution low'ring, does become The opposite of itself.
From time to time proposals have been made to deprive the superior courts of the power to deal summarily with contempts not committed in facie curiae, and to require proceedings on other charges for contempt to go before a jury.
In the case of other contempts the High Court not only can deal with contempts affecting itself, but can also intervene summarily to protect inferior courts from contempts.
Inferior courts of record have, as a general rule, power to punish only those contempts which are committed in facie curiae or consist in disobedience to the lawful orders or judgments of the court.
A court of quarter sessions has at common law a like power as to contempts in facie curiae and is said to have power to punish its officials for contempt in non-attendance or neglect of duty.
Many of us having been imprisoned upon contempts (as they called them) for not putting off our hats, it was not a likely thing that Friends, who had suffered so long for it from others, should put off their hats to him.
I cannot, for my own part, think so well of myself, as to imagine, that they can wish their kinsman to persevere in his views with regard to me, through such contempts and discouragements.
None of your saucy contempts [rising in her voice]: None of your poor Bella's, with that air of superiority in a younger sister!
There was to be no power of imprisonment for alleged contempts given to either House.
The time is indeed come that I can no longer bear those contempts and reflections which a brother, least of all men, is entitled to give.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contempts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
