Attainder - Law Dictionary Search Results
Special pleas
discharged from the prosecution: they are of four kinds, viz., a former acquittal, a former conviction, a former attainder, or a pardon
Sanctuary
the plea of Sanctuary. The privilege extended to civil as well as criminal process, but was attended by attainder of blood and forfeiture of goods. Sanctuary and abjuration were abolished in 1625 by 21 Jac.1, c. 21,
Record
Lane, London, and was opened in 1902. There are three kinds of records, viz.: (1) judicial, as an attainder; (2) ministerial, on oath, being an office or inquisition found; (3) by way of conveyance, as a deed
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Instanter
Instanter, immediately; at once. Trial instanter was had where a prisoner between attainder and execution pleaded that he was not the same who was attainted. When a party is ordered to
Escheat
without heirs and formerly might happen by corruption of blood that is by reason of a felony or attainder
Civil death
inquest, conviction, or judgment of or for any treason or felony, or felo de se, shall cause any attainder or corruption of blood, or any forfeiture or escheat. At common law, the loss of rights. Such as
Bill of pains and penalties
of felony, without any conviction in the ordinary course of judicial proceedings. if differs from a bill of attainder in this, that the punishment inflicted by the latter is death, 4 Br. & Had. Com. 334.
Autrefois attaint
Act, 1827 (7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 28), s. 4), obsolete after the Forfeiture Act, 1870, see ATTAINDER.
Inlaw
To clear of outlawry or attainder to place under the protection of the law
use
they were often secretly employed as a method of evading laws (as those prohibiting mortmain) and penalties (as attainder) and to defeat creditors. In response, the Statute of Uses was enacted in 1535. The purpose of the
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