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Bill of attainder
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bill
providing money for government expenses and programs NOTE: Appropriations bills originate in the House of Representatives. bill of attainder 1 : a legislative act formerly permitted that attainted a person and imposed a sentence of death without
attaint
attaint [Anglo-French ateint, past participle of ateindre see attainder ] : to subject (a person) to the consequences of attainder
corruption of blood
corruption of blood :the effect of an attainder which bars a person from inheriting, retaining, or transmitting any estate, rank, or title [no attainder of treason
Corruption of blood
Corruption of blood (now abolished), one of the immediate consequences of attainder for treason or felony. The blood of the attainted person was said to be corrupted or attainted both
Disability
divided into two classes: (1) absolute, which, while it continues, wholly disables the person 'such were outlawry, excommunication, attainder (but see the Forfeiture Act, 1870 (32 & 33 Vict. c.23), s. 1, abolishing attainder on conviction for
High Constable of England, Lord
has been disused (except only upon great and solemn occasions, as the coronation, or the like) since the attainder of Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, in the reign of Henry VII. See CHIVALRY, Court of.
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