Attaint - Law Dictionary Search Results
Civil death
Civil death. A man is said to be civilly dead (civiliter mortuus) when he has been attainted of treason or felony, and, in former times, when he adjured the realm or went into a monastery.
Copyhold
not to the Crown, unless by the express swords of an Act of Parliament, by the tenant being attainted of treason or felony; and are still so by his attempting to alienate his estate by any mode
Diversity
a plea by the prisoner in bar of execution, alleging that he is not the same who was attainted, upon which a jury is immediately empanelled to try the collateral issue thus raised, viz., the identity of
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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 plead instanter he must plead the same day.
Restitution
putting in possession of lands or tenements him who had been unlawfully disseised of them; a person being attainted of treason, etc., he or his heirs may be restored to his lands, etc., by royal charter of
Year, day and waste
whereby the Crown had for a year and a day the profits of land and tenements of those attainted of petit treason or felony, whosoever was lord of the manor whereto the lands or tenements belonged; and
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