 | Andrew Jackson Baker - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...110; Carpenter v. Pennsylvania, 17 Ho*'. 403; United States v. Wilson. 7 Pet 150. 19. Definition. — A bill of attainder is a legislative act which inflicts...of attainder include bills of pains and penalties. They are generally directed against individuals by name, but may be directed against a class, and may... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Baker - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 382
...the bills must be issued by a state. Bailey v. Mihier, 1 Abb. cU. S.) 261. 16. Bill of attainder. — A bill of attainder is a legislative act which inflicts punishment without trial. Cummings v. Missouri, 4 Wall. 277 ; Pierce v. Carskadon, 16 Wali 234. 17. Bill of attainder,... | |
 | Indiana, Harrison Burns - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 1050
...United States or the Confederate States, are not bills of attainder. Drehman v. Stifle, 8 AVall. 595. A bill of attainder is a legislative act which inflicts...than death, the act is termed a bill of pains and penaides. Cuminings v. State of Missouri, 4 Wall. 277 ; Ex parte Garland, id. 333. States can not,... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 1326
...1117-18. McCoy v. Washington County, 3 Wall. Jr. CC 381. Poindexter v. Greenhow, '114 US 270. (!/) A bill of attainder is a legislative act which inflicts punishment without a judicial trial ; the states cannot, under the form of creating a qualification, in effect, inflict a punishment for... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...decision of the Supreme Court, thus defines such a bill: "A Bill of Attainder is a (legislative actlwhich inflicts punishment without a judicial trial. If the...office of judge ; it assumes, in the language of the text-books, judicial magistracy ; it pronounces upon the guilt of the party, without any of the forms... | |
 | Chauncey F. Black, Samuel B. Smith - 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 808
...rr post faeto law, or law impairing the ohligation of eontraets.'" * 4 Vol., 377. t « Crnneh, 137. A bill of attainder is a legislative act which inflicts...without a judicial trial. If the punishment be less thau death the act is termed a hill of pains and penalties. Within the meaning of the Constitution,... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 702
...shall pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts." A bill of attainder is a legislative act which inflicts...office of judge; it assumes, in the language of the text-books, judicial magistracy; it pronounces upon the guilt of the party, without any of the forms... | |
 | Robert Lansing, Gary M. Jones - 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...facto law, . . . (Art. I., Sec. 10, Cl. 1.) A Mil of attainder is a legislative act which imposes a punishment without a judicial trial. If the punishment be less than death, the act is termed a lill of pains and penalties. Within the meaning of the Constitution, bills of attainder include bills... | |
 | Robert Lansing, G. M. Jones - 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 268
...facto law, . . . (Art. I., Sec. 10, 01. 1.) A 'bill of attainder is a legislative act which imposes a punishment without a judicial trial. If the punishment be less than death, the act is termed a Mil of pains and penalties. Within the meaning of the Constitution, bills of attainder include bills... | |
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A bill of attainder is a legislative act which inflicts punishment without a judicial trial. If the punishment be less than death, the act is termed a bill of pains and penalties. 
