Kitchen v. Kitchen’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “"27-10-03. Acts punishable as civil contempts. —Every court of record of this state may punish as for a civil contempt any person guilty of a neglect or violation of a duty or other misconduct by which a right or remedy of a party to a civil action or proceeding pending in such court may be defeated, impaired, impeded, or prejudiced in the following cases: . . . . . "8. In any other case expressly authorized by the code or statutes of this state, or where an attachment, or any other proceeding to punish for a contempt has been usually adopted and practiced in a court of record to enforce a civil remedy or to protect a right of a party to an action or proceeding in such court."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Perry v. Perry