 | Arthur George Sedgwick, Frederick Scott Wait - Land titles - 1886 - 956 pages
...Confiscation Act, passed on the same day,7 Congress declared that no punishment or proceedings under it should be " so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life." By act of March 3, 18f>3,3 the defendant was authorized, in 1 7 How. 198, 216; and in Hurst v. McNeil,... | |
 | Columbia University. Faculty of Political Science - Electronic journals - 1886 - 760 pages
...views.3 Its most important provision was that the punishment and proceedings under the act should not " be so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life." This was an effort to reconcile the act to the prohibition in the constitution against forfeiture for... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1890 - 986 pages
...its operation. The latter merely says — " 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." The Court has construed the efiect of this language to be, to leave the property free to descend to... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - United States - 1891 - 548 pages
...construing the act of June 17, 1862, as follows : " 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." The Supreme Court has sustained the act. period was treason against a State. A motion to give Congress... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...following, to be added to the resolution : — Nor shall any punishment or proceedings under said act be no construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natura. life. This provision encountered a sharp opposition : Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois, insisting... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 774 pages
...accompanying the confiscation act, (12 Stat. 627,) no proceedings under such act could be considered "to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life." The status of the fee between the time the forfeiture took effect and the termination of the life estate,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 776 pages
...accompanying the confiscation act, (12 Stat. 627,) no proceedings under such act could be considered " to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life," The status of the fee between the time the forfeiture took effect and the termination of the life estate,... | |
 | William Sullivan Pattee - Real property - 1895 - 264 pages
...was passed by Congress, and approved, explanatory of some of its provisions, and declaring that " no proceedings under said Act shall be so construed as...real estate of the offender beyond his natural life." The Act and the joint resolution are doubtless to be construed as one Act, precisely as if the latter... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Constitutional history - 1895 - 440 pages
...the so-called Confederate States of America; nor should 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. § 514. The objection raised by President Lincoln was accepted by Congress as valid, but at that time... | |
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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. 
