Attachment for contempt
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 1 U.S. 347 - Geyer v. Smith · 1788Most cited · 4 citing opinions
failure to perform award
an attachment will lie for a contempt in not performing an award of Referees... appears clearly to have been agreeable to the common law prior to the statute of 9 and 10. W. 3. which is declared by the Judges, and appears from a perusal of the act itself, to have been made only to put agreements to refer cases never instituted in Court, upon the same footing with causes already in Court, and to be declaratory of what the law was before in the latter cases.
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