 | Thomas James Norton - Constitutional history - 1922 - 332 pages
...attainted.116 116 Congress ran counter to this limitation during the Civil War. It passed (July 17, 1862) an act "to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels", and for some other purposes, which was called the Confiscation Act. To insure... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1906 - 524 pages
...further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after its passage." Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled "An act to suppress insurrection,...punish treason and, rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in... | |
 | Augustin Derby - Criminal law - 1923 - 856 pages
...States. The indictment is framed under the second section of the act of Congress of July 17, 1862, entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes ;" and it charges the commission of acts, which, in... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Awards and Prizes - 1923 - 786 pages
...property should ' be lawful subject of prize and capture wherever found.' And by act of July 17th, 1862,3 to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, &c., it declared (ยง6), that ' all the estate and property' of persons in rebellion,... | |
 | Iredell Meares - Trading with the enemy - 1924 - 712 pages
...as settled by the highest federal judicial authority. An act of Congress passed July 17, 1862, was entitled 'an act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels and for other purposes.' The sixth section provided that if any person within... | |
 | Charles Buxton Going - Statesmen - 1924 - 826 pages
...act emerged safely from conference stronger than it had left the Senate, and with the title, "A bill to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purpose." 7 If Wilmot, as just said, was dissatisfied with the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1068 pages
...has had occasion to pass on the principle involved in cases arising under the Act of July 17, 1862, entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels and for other purposes." which provided that the proceedings against the property... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 658 pages
...such sale. The proceedings mentioned were instituted under the act of Congress of July 17, 1862, " to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes." In July, 1863, the premises in controversy were seized... | |
 | William MacDonald - United States - 1926 - 742 pages
...Howard, House Exec. Doc. 19, 3gtfi Cong, ist Sess.; see also Senate Exec. Doc. 58, 4Oth Cong., ad Sess. An Act to suppress Insurrection, to punish Treason and Rebellion, to seize and confiscate the Properly of Rebels, and for other Pur' poses. Be it enacted . . . , That every person who shall... | |
 | United States. Department of Justice - Criminal procedure - 1939 - 884 pages
...to grant pardon* includes the right to proclaim general pardons or amnesties. In 1862, Congress, in an act entitled "An act to suppress insurrection,...punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," provided as follows: SEC. 13. And be It further enacted... | |
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Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled "An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words... 
