 | David Kemper Watson - Constitutional history - 1910 - 1074 pages
...resolution which provided among other things 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." 79 The President, upon learning of the passage of this joint resolution, construed it as being a part... | |
 | David Kemper Watson - Constitutional history - 1910 - 1140 pages
...resolution which provided among other things 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 /its natural life."™ The President, upon learning of the passage of this joint resolution, construed... | |
 | John Martin Vincent - Administrative responsibility - 1911 - 606 pages
...Congress that " no punishment or proceedings under said act [Confiscation Act of July 17, 1862] should be so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life."2 The Confederates were further aided by the attitude of Governor Wells, who, on March 4, 1865,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 1544 pages
...SUPREME COUBT OP THE UNITED STATES. DEC. TERM, "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... | |
 | Horace White - Legislators - 1913 - 516 pages
...passed a joint resolution providing that no punishment or proceedings under the Confiscation Act should be so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life. Lincoln's intended veto of the Confiscation Bill is printed on page 3406 of the Congressional Globe.... | |
 | James Garfield Randall - Constitutional law - 1913 - 82 pages
...resolution, the law was not to be construed as applying to acts done prior to its passage." nor "as working a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life". Although this left an important part of his objections untouched (ic, as to the condemnation of property... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1913 - 940 pages
...resolution, the law was not to be construed as applying to acts done prior to its passage,13 nor "as working a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life". Although this left an important part of his objections untouched (te, as to the condemnation of property... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1913 - 922 pages
...resolution, the law was not to be construed as applying to acts done prior to its passage,18 nor "as working a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life". Although this left an important part of his objections untouched (»'. e., as to the condemnation of... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. War Claims Committee - 1914 - 260 pages
...xii., p. 592. seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. 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. PROCLAMATION OF THE PRESIDENT. [12 Stat. L., p. 1266.) No. 15. By the President... | |
 | Charles William Bacon, Franklyn Stanley Morse - Constitutional law - 1916 - 516 pages
...resolution explanatory of it, whereby it was resolved 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. It is a well known fact in our political history that this resolution was adopted in consequence of... | |
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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. 
