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INHERENT POWER COURT [4 records]

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Record 1 2014-04-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Administrative Law
  • Commercial and Other Bodies (Law)
DEF

Jurisdiction that is not granted to a court by statute, but that is inherent in the court's authority to govern lawyers and other officers of the court, such as the power to issue a preindictment order suppressing illegally seized property.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit administratif
  • Organismes commerciaux ou non (Droit)
CONT

Cette compétence inhabituelle attribuée à la Cour ne correspond pas à celle d'un juge constitutionnel traditionnel et revêt d'un caractère politique. La Cour bénéficiait d'un pouvoir quasi «supra constitutionnel», elle s'est comportée comme une autorité placée au-dessus du pouvoir constituant.

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-03-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Courts
CONT

"Direct Contempt of Court" is the inherent power judicial officers possess to maintain respect, dignity, and order during proceedings. Judicial officers are not only Circuit Judges or Federal District Judges, but also may often be specially appointed commissioners or special masters. A judge may find anyone in her court... attorneys, parties, witnesses, and spectators... in civil or criminal direct contempt.

OBS

Because direct contempt of court involves conduct at the proceedings, criminal direct contempt is much more unusual than civil direct contempt.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Tribunaux
OBS

[...] l'outrage au tribunal commis en présence du juge.

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-11-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rules of Court
DEF

A suit commenced for the purpose of giving trouble, or without cause.

CONT

"Vexatious action : an action brought merely for the sake of annoyance or oppression. The court has an inherent power to stay such an action. "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Règles de procédure
CONT

L’instance, la poursuite vexatoire est intentée par un demandeur qui entend seulement gêner, humilier ou contrarier le défendeur, c’est-à-dire, à proprement parler, le vexer; elle est introduite ou est entamée par malveillance et sans motif légitime.

Spanish

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Record 4 2001-01-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Practice and Procedural Law
DEF

Every court has inherent power to punish one for contempt of its judgments or decrees and for conduct within or proximate to the court which is contemptuous.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit judiciaire

Spanish

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