10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONTUMACIOUSNESS»
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contumaciousness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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The Operas of Leonardo Vinci, Napoletano
14 If the Fratello deferred this penitential settling of accounts, paying for the
contumaciousness and all that which remains owing at the time of death, [then]
all the other expenses that occur in candles, palls, decorated coffin and any other
debt, ...
Kurt Sven Markstrom, 2007
2
The criminal law system of medieval and Renaissance Florence
Responses of the Defendants Response Response/Total % of Total
Contumaciousness 75/177 42.4 Negation 64/177 36.1 Confession 38/177 21.5
was the method preferred by the court system, since it was useful to have the
accuser gather ...
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Royal Dictionary English and French and French and English
CON'ITUMACY (kon'-tiou-ma-oé), or CONTUMACIOUSNESS (kon'-tiou-me/-
cheus-hece), s. [obstiuacyz in Law; a wilful disobedience to any lawful summons]
obstination, f. opinia'treta', f. contumace, f. refus de comparat'tre en justice , m.
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A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage
(Eng.) The adjectival form is contumacious, q.v. Contumaciousness should be
reserved for the sense "the quality of being contumacious," and should not be
used as a longer variant of the preferred noun: "While we do not wish to
understate ...
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Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage
See contemptuous (a). contumacy; ✳contumacity; contumaciousness; contumely.
✳Contumacity is a long needless variant for contumacy (= willful contempt of
court). Contumacy, then, is a particular kind of contempt of court. (See contempt
of ...
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Burton's Legal Thesaurus, Fourth Edition
contumaciousness contempt (disobedience to the court), dissidence contumacy
contempt (disobedience to the court), defiance, disloyalty, disrespect, rebellion,
resistance contumax contumacious, froward, insolent, willful contumelia ...
7
A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Studies
... learned through experience, and from this experience learned that the
difference between good and evil was, namely, the good of obedience and the
evil of disobedience, that is, of pride, contumaciousness, the unnatural imitation
of God, ...
Jacqueline Stodnick, Renée Trilling, 2012
8
Ceylon and the Cingalese: Their History, Government, and ...
... and the marriage was accordingly celebrated with great rejoicings ; but during
our residence in Lanka-diva, the old lady positively refused to pardon her son's
contumaciousness, receive her daughter-in-law, or hold communication with any
...
9
The Youth of Shakspeare
aa-a-cwm “But I will not have it 'pooh,' " cried the constable, raising his voice, and
seeming in some indignation. “ It be flat contumaciousness, and very sedition. I
will allow ofit on no account; and I charge you, on your allegiance declare the ...
Robert Folkestone Williams, 1839
... that the son preferred had alone discharged his filial obligations to his father,
and that his brethren had been notorious for contumaciousness, and had been
known to have incurred the father's severe displeasure, the unequal partition of
the ...
Horace Hayman Wilson, 1865
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How not to pick a hero: The Cliven Bundy story
To the armed anti-government scores who have turned up at Bundy's place to convince the world that contumaciousness is patriotic, he's the ... «Los Angeles Times, May 14»
