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Legal Definition and Related Resources of Civil Contempt<\/h1>\n
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Meaning of Civil Contempt<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

A remedial process<\/a> , utilized in civil<\/a> suit where<\/a> one party<\/a> has a right<\/a> to require<\/a> some act on the part of the other<\/a> for his benefit<\/a> and advantage and obtains an order<\/a> of the court<\/a> commanding that other to do an act and that other refuses to do so as directed; the litigant<\/a> alone is interested in enforcement and as soon as that litigant is satisfied, the contempt<\/a> proceeding<\/a> comes to an end. American Cyanamid Co. v Rogers, 314 N.E.2d679, 21 Hl.App.3d 152.
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Related Entries of Civil Contempt in the Encyclopedia of Law Project <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

Browse or run a search for Civil Contempt in the American Encyclopedia of Law<\/a>, the Asian Encyclopedia of Law<\/a>, the European Encyclopedia of Law<\/a>, the UK Encyclopedia of Law<\/a> or the Latin American and Spanish Encyclopedia of Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Civil Contempt in Historical Law <\/h2>\n

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Legal Abbreviations and Acronyms <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

Search for legal acronyms and\/or abbreviations containing Civil Contempt in the Legal Abbreviations and Acronyms Dictionary<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Related Legal Terms<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

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A remedial process, utilized in civil suit where one party has a right to require some act on the part of the other for his benefit and advantage and obtains an order of the court commanding that other to do an act and that other refuses to do so as directed; the litigant alone is interested in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legaldictionary.lawin.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legaldictionary.lawin.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legaldictionary.lawin.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legaldictionary.lawin.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legaldictionary.lawin.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legaldictionary.lawin.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legaldictionary.lawin.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legaldictionary.lawin.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legaldictionary.lawin.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}