...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...

...conjunction with the resolution of the same date, declaring that "no proceedings under said act should be so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his uatural life," was held by the court, while operating as a divestment of all possible estate of the...

...law.1 In anticipation of these objections, a joint resolution was adopted, containing the provision, " Nor shall any punishment or proceedings under said...estate of the offender beyond his natural life."" Mr. Sumner did not sympathize with the objections, but, in his anxiety to secure the approval of the...

...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 wellknown fact in our political history that this resolution was adopted in consequence of...

...accompanied it, is not so certain as it should be. The language of the last clause in that resolution is, " Nor shall any punishment or proceedings, under said...real estate of the offender beyond his natural life." There is no forfeiture in express terms provided for hi any part of the Act. The punishment of treason,...

...or as explanatory of it, expressly provides that no punishment or proceedings under said act shall be so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life. Thus, to prevent our courts from construing the sentence of death, under Sect. 1, as involving an attainder...

...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 Stat. at L. 627. United States v. Athens Armory. It was insisted on behalf of the claimant, that...

...explanatory resolution of Congress, viz. : that " no punishment or proceedings under said act shall be 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 the Administration, and 'a great number of cases were...

...to pass it, that it was not passed in the very words of the Constitution. As passed, it reads thus: "Nor shall any punishment or proceedings under said...real estate of the offender beyond his natural life." The passage of this resolution was, beyond all question or doubt, intended to prevent the confiscation...

...law.1 In anticipation of these objections, a joint resolution was adopted, containing the provision, " Nor shall any punishment or proceedings under said...the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life."2 Mr. Sumner did not sympathize with the objections, hut, in his anxiety to secure the approval...