Usually means: Defiance of court order, punishable.
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  1. civil contempt: Vocabulary.com
  2. civil contempt: Dictionary.com
  3. Civil contempt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. civil contempt: Rhymezone
  5. civil contempt: FreeDictionary.org
  6. civil contempt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  7. civil contempt: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. civil contempt: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)

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noun:  a failure to follow a court order that benefits someone else


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