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Bill of pains and penalties
Bill of pains and penalties, a special Act of the legislature which inflicts a punishment, less than death, upon persons supposed to be guilty of treason 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....
Pains and penalties, Bills of
Pains and penalties, Bills of, Acts of Parliament to condemn particular persons for treason or felony, or to inflict pains and penalties beyond or contrary to the Common Law, to serve a special purpose. They are in fact new laws, made pro re nataa. It is an incident of such bills that persons who are to be affected by them are entitled by custom to be heard at the Bar of the House in person or by counsel. But on a bill to disfranchise the borough of St. Albans, this claim was disallowed....
bill
bill 1 : a draft of a law presented to a legislature for enactment ;also : the law itself [the GI ] ap·pro·pri·a·tions bill [ə-prō-prē-ā-shənz-] : a 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 benefit of a judicial trial see also attainder compare bill of pains and penalties in this entry 2 : a legislative act that imposes any punishment on a named or implied individual or group without a trial NOTE: Bills of attainder are prohibited by Article I of the U.S. Constitution. bill of pains and penalties : a legislative act formerly permitted that imposed a punishment less severe than death without benefit of a judicial trial compare bill of attainder in this entry NOTE: The term bill of attainder is often used to include bills of p...
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