Мне пришлось посмотреть в словаре, что такое "contumeliously".
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Также пришлось посмотреть, что значит "may also be bound to good behavior". Нашел любопытный текст, позволю себе процитировать. "Полная энциклопедия законов Вирджинии", 1922 год:
"Every judge throughout the State and every justice, commissioner in chancery, notary, and county surveyor while in the performance of the duties of his office within his county or corporation shall be a conservator of the peace, and may require from persons not of good fame security for their good behavior for a term not exceeding one year. (...)
(1) What persons are "not of good fame."—The expression, "not of good fame," is so comprehensive and uncertain in its meaning as to leave much to the discretion of the conservator. In the exercise of a power so indefinite, he should act with great caution—falling short of, rather than exceeding, his authority—and not bind to good behavior for evil rumor in general; for rumor is too fallible to be relied on with safety, and good men are often maligned. But under the general words of the statute, he may bind for good behavior for the following causes:
* Haunting bawdy houses with women of bad fame;
* keeping such women in his own house;
* prostitution or lewdness of any kind;
* words in abuse of an officer of justice, especially when in the execution of his office;
* contempt of court;
* being a night-walker, eavesdropper, common scold, common drunkard, gamester, cheat, or idle vagabond;
* being a libeller or an author or a publisher of obscene books or pictures;
* keeping suspicious company;
* incurring the suspicion of being a robber;
* sleeping in the day and going abroad in the night;
* and other like instances of misbehavior, contra hones mores, (against good morals), as well as contra pacem, (against the peace), that fall within the reasonable embrace of the statute.
(2) Proceedings against persons "not of good fame.''— As to how persons "not of good fame" are required to find sureties for their good behavior, the statute is silent, and the proceedings are therefore as at common law. The conservator may, of his own motion, in the exercise of a sound judicial discretion, issue his warrant requiring a person known to him to be of evil fame to furnish security for his good behavior; but it would be a more prudent policy, in such cases, for him to be satisfied by evidence on oath, not only of the bad repute of the party, but that his conduct and actions have been so scandulous as to justify his interference. If, upon the hearing, the conservator finds good cause, he requires the party to give a recognizance, payable to the Commonwealth, and in such sum and with such security as he may deem sufficient, conditioned to be of good behavior, specially, or generally towards the Commonwealth and all persons therein, for such time, not exceeding one year, as the conservator may direct. If he fails to furnish such recognizance, he is, for such default, committed to jail, and the commitment must express the cause thereof with convenient certainty, and care should be taken that the cause be a good one. (Code, § 4973.)
While the party has no right of appeal, as it seems, yet he may be discharged from jail, upon such recognizance being given before some conservator of the peace; or by the county or corporation court, on such terms as it may deem reasonable; or by serving out the time for which the recognizance was required.