State v. Matthews
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Attachment for Contempt. On. the 26th day of March, 1858, Mary U. P. Matthews filed in the office of the clerk of this court her petition to he divorced from the respondent, on the ground of his extreme cruelty towards her, and conduct on his part whereby her health and reason had been injured and endangered, and asking for alimony out of his personal and real estate.
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Attachment for Contempt. On. the 26th day of March, 1858, Mary U. P. Matthews filed in the office of the clerk of this court her petition to he divorced from the respondent, on the ground of his extreme cruelty towards her, and conduct on his part whereby her health and reason had been injured and endangered, and asking for alimony out of his personal and real estate. On the same day she applied to a single judge, and obtained from him an injunction to prohibit the respondent’s conveying or disposing of his real and personal property during the pendency of the libel. An application was…
1Opinion of the Court
' Fowler, J.
The authority to punish contempt is a necessary incident, inherent in the very organization of all legislative bodies, and of all courts of law or equity, independent of statute provisions. Anderson v. Dunn, 6 Wheaton 204; Maurice v. Dyer, 2 Greenl. 165; Yates v. Lansing, 9 Johns. 305; 6 Johns. 337; 4 Johns. 317; 1 Burr’s Trial 352; United States v. Hudson, 7 Cranch 32; 1 Kent’s Com. 300, n. b; United States v. New-Bedford Bridge, 1 W. & M. 401; exparte Adams, 25 Miss. 883; Tenney’s Case, 23 N. H. (3 Foster) 162; State v. Copp, 15 N. H. 212.
If the contempt be committed in the…
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