 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 858 pages
...resolution now in question I beg leave to read again : Xor shall any punishment or proceeding under said act be so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond hia natural life. CONGRESS, US "After Congress had passed and the President had approved that act and... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...the so-called Confederate States of America; nor shall any punishment or proceedings under said act be so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the ofi'ender, beyond his natural life." This law has been justly characterized as the first great act... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 726 pages
...the joint resolution of Congress, which declared that condemnation under that act should not be held to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his mitural life, the title of Bigelow terminated with the death of the elder Forrest. In opposition to... | |
 | David Thomas - African Americans - 1868 - 222 pages
...earnestly desirous to have the clause in the confiscation act repealed, which provided that it should not " be so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life." Mr. Johnson at that time urged that if they permitted the war to close without having provided lor... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1868 - 740 pages
...so-called " Confederate States of America ;" nor shall any punishment or proceedings under said act be so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life. TUE COST OF WAR. Actual and estimated EmiieiblihiresSor three years of War. War Department $394.368.4(17... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1868 - 480 pages
...alia, provides, as follows : " nor shall any punishment or proceeding, under said Act, be construed so as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life." 12 Stats. 627. It was insisted on behalf of the claimant, first, that these statutes are unconstitutional... | |
 | John F. Callan, United States - Military law - 1868 - 620 pages
...so-called "Confederate States of America;" nor shall any punishment or proceedings under said act he so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender heyond his natural life. RESOLUTION 70.—Approved, July 17,1862.—Vol. 12, p. 629. A Resolution to... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1868 - 740 pages
...States of America;" nor shall ny punishment or proceedings under said act be so construed as to w<>rk a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life. TUE COST OF WAR. Aitu.il and etlimated X»¡ien;lUnraf¡>r Чч-ес year» of War. Exrsvsiu. Istia.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 868 pages
...the so-called Confederate States of America; nor shall any punishment or proceedings under Mid act be so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life. "The only part of that resolution affected by the one now under consideration is the last e, which... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 944 pages
...explanatory resolution of Congress, viz. : that "no punishment or proceedings under said act shall he so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life," would appear to have received the sanction of tho Administration, and a great number of cases were... | |
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America;" nor shall any punishment or proceedings under said act be so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life. 
