 | United States. Congress. House - 1885 - 654 páginas
...joint resolution, in which it was provided that the previous acts authorizing confiscation should " not be so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond bis natural life." Borne evidence was introduced tending to show that representations were made by... | |
 | 1885 - 1156 páginas
...the joint resolution of corgress, which declared that condemnation under that act should not be held to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond 'his natural life, the title of Bigelow terminated with the death of the elder Forrest. In opposition to this it was argued... | |
 | Columbia University. Faculty of Political Science - 1886 - 760 páginas
...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... | |
 | Arthur George Sedgwick, Frederick Scott Wait - 1886 - 956 páginas
...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,... | |
 | 1890 - 986 páginas
...confiscation act, it is true, nor in the joint resolution limiting its operation. The latter merely says — " Nor shall any punishment or proceedings under said...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 - 1891 - 504 páginas
...senses. To meet his view, Congress adopted a joint resolution construing the act of June 17, 1862, as follows : "Nor shall any punishment or proceedings...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 - 1891 - 424 páginas
...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 - 1892 - 774 páginas
...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 - 1893 - 776 páginas
...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,... | |
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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. 
