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- Title: Ayers. Scott. Mccabe.
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 05, 1887
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 96 KB
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It is established by the decision of this court, that while "the exercise of the power of punishment for contempt of their orders, by courts of general jurisdiction, is not subject to review by writ of error or appeal to this court," yet, when "a court of the United States undertakes, by its process of contempt, to punish a man for refusing to comply with an order which that court had no authority to make, the order itself, being without jurisdiction, is void, and the order punishing for the contempt is equally void;" and that, "when the proceeding for contempt in such a case results in imprisonment, this court will, by its writ of habeas corpus, discharge the prisoner." Ex parte Fisk, 113 U.S. 713, 718.