No attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted. From LearnThat.org. [U.S. Constitution]
Sunday's term was bill of attainder, which is defined as. From Wordnik.com. [Legal Definitions] Reference
When Congress singles out someone or a group to penalize, it is a bill of attainder, which is as unconstitutional as you can get. From Wordnik.com. [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference
"I'm not surprised," said Drumcarro; "one of the old Douglas family before the attainder was as good as any one of their new-fangled dukes.". From Wordnik.com. [Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago] Reference
What 'attainder' is, and why it affects our fighting men in uniform. From Wordnik.com. [Euphoric Reality] Reference
A bill of attainder, which is a punishment of particular individuals imposed not by a court of law but by a legislative body. From Wordnik.com. [David Drake] Reference
"attainder" clause and require it to continue to use their services?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy] Reference
M854 The attainder of Cornish reversed, June, 1689. 1670. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
Herries, of Terregles, but for the attainder of her grandfather. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
The reversal of the attainder was required to legalise his position. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
The attainder was not, however, set aside in favour of the son of Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
The preamble of this act, after stating the attainder by the act 1 Edw. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowley Poems] Reference
Viscount Thurles in 1791, the Irish parliament reversing the attainder of. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Dare you put eight and twenty millions of men into your bill of attainder?. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
He, however, opposed the attainder, made an eloquent speech on the 21st of. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Bridgnorth, but on Robert's attainder in 1102 the town became a royal borough. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Peevish; irritable; cranky; extremely unpleasant or distasteful. bill of attainder. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Tullibardine, and the Lord Linlithgow had a bill of attainder passed against them. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
That the process against Essex was by attainder and not by an ordinary trial is of little moment. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
During twenty-six years the Marquis of Tullibardine, against whom an act of attainder was passed, remained in exile. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
In 1326 an act was passed for reversing the attainder of Earl Thomas in favor of his brother Henry, earl of Lancaster. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
The Earl of Mar was succeeded by his son, Thomas Lord Erskine, who was deprived of the famed title of Mar by his father's attainder. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
Who was the author of the anonymous life of the second Duke of Ormonde, published in one volume octavo, some years after his attainder?. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850] Reference
The following is an extract from Curran's speech delivered before a committee of the house of Lords, against the Bill of attainder on Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell] Reference
In case of outlawry or attainder, the waste reverted to the Crown, which, according to custom, held possession of it for a year and a day. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
Leicester once enjoyed this great dignity hereditarily; through them it descended to the De Montford family, until, on the attainder of the last. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
And what was thought most unjust of all, he caused the attainder to pass upon their sons, and son's sons, and made open sale of all their property. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
His wife, the daughter of William Duke of Hamilton, was, after his attainder, provided for by act of Parliament in the same manner as if she had been a widow. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
attainder and forfeiture followed this last attempt, but the sentence was reversed by the Court of Session, from a misnomer in the attainder; and the venerable Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
In 1689 he joined in voting for the reversal of Lord Russell's attainder, and endeavoured to defend his conduct in the trial, but was refused a hearing by the House. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
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