CONTEMPT OF COURT

is an insult to a Court of Justice, or any defiance or resistance to its authority. If the attempt be committed in the face of the Court, the offender may be instantly apprehended and imprisoned at the discretion of the judges, without any further proof or examination. Doing anything calculated to prejudice a fair trial of any case; or the disobedience of a judicial order, or the interference with the due course of justice, amounts to contempt of court. Commenting in a newspaper on the facts of a case which is proceeding at the time, Spee) if it be in any way calculated to uence the jury, and writing letters about such a case to the judge and jury who are trying it, are instances of gro contempt of court. cent.), Venetian traveler; explored India, Malay Archipelago, etc.; returned by ‘Ciampa,’ po ibly Indo-China, Aden, Jidda, and Cairo; arrived at Venice, 1444; gave valuable account of 8. Asia.