 | 1925 - 408 pages
...own law the same distinction clearly appears. * * * In the Gompers case this Court points out that it is not the fact of punishment but rather its character and purpose that makes the difference between the two kinds of contempts. For civil contempts, the punishment is remedial... | |
 | Elijah Nathaniel Zoline - 1921 - 650 pages
...Nature and Degree of Punishment. If the contempt is civil in its nature, the punishment is remedial for the benefit of the complainant, but if it is for criminal con§ 518. ! Eilenbecker r. District § 619. '• Merchants' Stock and Court of Plymouth County, 134... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1926 - 1546 pages
...107, 109, 66 L. ed. 848, 850, 42 Sup. Ct. Rpp. 427. In the Gompers Case this court points out that it is not the fact of punishment but rather its character and purpose that makes the difference between the two kinds of contempts. For civil contempts, the punishment is remedial... | |
 | 1928 - 1120 pages
...characteristics of both.' Bessette v. Conkey, 194 US 329 [24 S. Ct. 665, 48 L. Ed. 997]. • • • It is not the fact of punishment but rather its character and purpose that often serve to distinguish 21F.(2d)-31 cerned, and cannot be disturbed without the leave of the court; and that, if any person,... | |
 | 1928 - 1066 pages
...characteristics of both.' Bessette v. Conkey, 194 US 329 [24 S. Ct. 665, 48 L. Ed. 997]. • • • It is not the fact of punishment but rather its character and purpose that often serve to distinguish 21F.(2d)-31 "No rule is better settled than that, when a court has appointed a receiver, his possession... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1929 - 220 pages
...court the defendant has disobeyed the order, and a prayer that he be attached and punished therefor. It is not the fact of punishment, but rather its character and purpose that often serves to distinguish between the two classes of cases. If it is for civil contempt, the punishment... | |
 | 1928 - 1054 pages
...contempt, whether civil or criminal, punishment is involved, the Supreme Court has made clear that it is not the fact of punishment but rather its character and purpose that serves to distinguish between the two classes of cases. "If it is for civil contempt the punishment... | |
 | 1928 - 820 pages
...contempt, whether civil or criminal, punishment is involved, the Supreme Court has made clear that it is not the fact of punishment but rather its character and purpose that serves to disinguish between the two classes of cases. " It' it is for civil contempt the punishment... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1947 - 948 pages
...Criminal, 43 Col. L. Rev. 780, 78990 (1943). But "punishment" as used in contempt cases is ambiguous. "It is not the fact of punishment but rather its character and purpose . . . ." Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co., 221 US 418, 441 (1941). Noteworthy also is the allegation... | |
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If it is for civil contempt the punishment is remedial, and for the benefit of the complainant. But if it is for criminal contempt the sentence is punitive, to vindicate the authority of the court". 
