 | United States. President - United States - 1897 - 858 pages
...the socalled "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. Approved, July 17, 1862. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. I, Abraham... | |
 | William Archibald Dunning - History - 1904 - 422 pages
...his views.3 Its most important provision was that no punishment or proceedings under the act should " 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 with the prohibition in the constitution against forfeiture... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - Arbitration (International law) - 1898 - 1178 pages
...act of July 17, 18G2, it was provided that the act of 1861, authorizing confiscation, should ''not be so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real...estate of the, offender beyond his natural life." And after the death of Mr. Slidell, which occurred in 1871, his heirs instituted proceedings for the... | |
 | William MacDonald - History - 1903 - 466 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." their appointment or election since the date of the pretended ordinance of cesession of the state,... | |
 | Van Vechten Veeder - Forensic orations - 1903 - 720 pages
...States of America.' " Then follows this clause : "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." A "forfeiture" of the estate of the "offender." What have these terms to do with the appropriation... | |
 | Van Vechten Veeder - Forensic orations - 1903 - 720 pages
...States of America.' " Then follows this clause: "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." A "forfeiture" of the estate of the "offender." What have these terms to do with the appropriation... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 856 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 to work a forfeiture of ;he real estate of the offender beyond his natural life." The act and the joint resolution are doubtless... | |
 | United States - 1906 - 1132 pages
...Stats. 627, it was provided that proceedings under the act should not be so construed as to work the forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life. During the war certain lands in Cincinnati, Ohio, belonging to one J., who had entered the Confederate... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - International law - 1906 - 1134 pages
...Stats. 627, it was provided that proceedings under the 1ict should not be so construed as to work the forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life. During the war certain lands in Cincinnati. Ohio, belonging to one J., who had entered the Confederate... | |
 | John Bassett Moore - International law - 1906 - 1132 pages
...Stats. 627, it was provided that proceedings under the act should not be so construed as to work the forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life. During the war certain lands in Cincinnati, Ohio, belonging to one J., who had entered the Confederate... | |
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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. 
