 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1911 - 132 pages
...the courts the power to . punish for contempts ? These bills all contemplate that contempts committed in the presence of the court, or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice or disobedience of an order of the court by any of the officers... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - 1912 - 678 pages
...powers of the Federal courts to three classes of cases: (1) Those where there has been misbehavior in the presence of the court, or so near thereto as to interfere with the orderly performance of its duties; (2) where there • : has been misbehavior by an officer... | |
 | 1912 - 896 pages
...shall have been sentenced to imprisonment. Section 268d excepts from the operation of the act contempts in the presence of the court, or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice, and contempts committed in disobedience of any lawful writ,... | |
 | Seymour Dwight Thompson - 1912 - 1078 pages
...NJL 403; Hurley v. Com., 188 Mass. 143, 74 NE 677. Where statute authorized contempt for misbehavior in the presence of the court "or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice," this reached, in contempt an attempt to corruptly influence... | |
 | 1912 - 1652 pages
...case on error to the higher courts and meanwhile may be admitted to bail. If the contempt is committed in the presence of the court or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice or if the contempt be in a suit prosecuted in the name of the... | |
 | 1914 - 908 pages
...laws of the United States or of the State wherein it is committed, and not then when it is committed in the presence of the court or so near thereto as to interfere with the administration of justice, or when the suit is one brought by the United States. Its chief... | |
 | 1914 - 1080 pages
...Columbia. "Sec. 24. That nothing herein contained shall be construed to relate to contempts committed in the presence of the court, or so near thereto as to obstruct the administrtaion of justice, nor to contempts committed in disobedience of any lawful writ,... | |
 | Thomas Johnson Michie - 1914 - 824 pages
...disturbance, or any other act calculated to disturb or obstruct the administration of justice, committed in the presence of the court, or so near thereto as to have that effect." Coleman r. Roberts, 113 Ala. 323, 81 So. 449, 450. § 12. Scope and Extent of Authority.... | |
 | James Parker Hall - 1914 - 528 pages
...153. declared to be direct contempts, all other contempts being indirect contempts. First. Misbehavior in the presence of the court, or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice. Second. Violence or threats of violence to a judge or officer... | |
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... to the misbehavior, misconduct, or disobedience of any officer of the court in respect to the writs, orders, or process of the court. 
