Legal glossary
“civil contempt”
Defined in 1 Acts. A definition holds for the Act that gives it; the same word can mean something else in another Act.
The Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 · s. 2
(b) "civil contempt" means wilful disobedience to any judgment, decree, direction, order, writ or other process of a court or wilful breach of an undertaking given to a court;
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