Definition of De Contumace Capiendo

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • De contumace capiendo
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    A writ against one guilty of contempt.

  • De Contumace Capiendo
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    Writ for taking a contumacious person. A writ which issues out of the English court of chancery, in cases where a person has been pronounced by an ecclesiastical court to be contumacious, and in contempt. Shelf. Mar. & Div. 494-496, and notes. It is a commitment for contempt. Id.