State v. Pownal Tanning Co.

How courts have described this case

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• “[A]s a general rule before a person may be held in contempt for violating a court order, the order should inform him in definite terms as to the duties imposed upon him.”
• party cannot be held in contempt for violating court order unless order is “specific and definite so that it leaves no reasonable basis for doubt as to its meaning”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).