...was passed a joint resolution, 12 Stat. US 027, explanatory of this Act, which contains this clause: "Nor shall any punishment or proceedings under said...real estate of the offender beyond his natural life." THEORY OF OtTR NATIONAL EXISTENCE. 65 Mrs. Alexander's cotton. Opinion by Chase, CJ cree of the District...

...inhibition is supposed to be couched in the following, which are the concluding lines of the resolution: " Nor shall any punishment or proceedings under said...real estate of the offender beyond his natural life." This legislative expression was made to satisfy the President that the Constitution was not infringed...

...joint resolution framed to remove the President's objections, of which this was the last clause : " Nor shall any punishment or proceedings under said...real estate of the offender beyond his natural life." Considering the bill and the resolution " as being substantially one," President Lincoln approved and...

...proposed to be repealed are, " nor shall any punishment or proceedings under said act be so construed us to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life." June 28 — This was agreed to — yeas 23, nays 15, as follows : YEAS — Messrs. Anthony, Brown,...

...confiscation net, 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." Thecourthasconstrued the effect of this language to be to leave the property free to descend to the...

...accompanying the confiscation act, (12 St. p. 627,) no proceedings under such act cou'd We 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 estnte,...

...Сотгвт OP тнв UNITED STATES. Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," Í8 this clause : "Nor shall any punishment or proceedings under said...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...

...any act done by a rebel prior to its passage, and that no punishment or proceeding under it should be so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life. These, with some minor defects, being corrected, the President affixed his signature and made public...

...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 his natural life." Some evidence was introduced tending to show that representations were made by the rnai>h;il that the...

...into the Treasury for the purposes aforesaid ; but no punishment or proceedings under this Act shall be so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life." This is precisely what Congress has said, and all that it has said, on this subject. It has not assumed...