Attainder - Law Dictionary Search Results
felony
federal crime for which the punishment may be death or imprisonment for more than a year see also attainder, treason NOTE: Originally in English law a felony was a crime for which the perpetrator would suffer forfeiture
Treason
quartering, etc. (as to which see 54 Geo. 3, c. 146), having been abolished, along with for-feiture and attainder, by the Forfeiture Act, 1870. By the Treason Act, 1842, as read with s. 30 of the Interpretation
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