Attainder

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  • noun. Under English common law, the state of having lost one's legal and civil personhood, as through losing the legal capacity to own or pass on property.
  • noun. Dishonor.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the legal consequence of judgment of death or outlawry pronounced in respect of treason or felony: as, a bill of attainder; to remove an attainder.
  • noun. A bringing under some disgrace, stain, or imputation; the state of being in dishonor.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry.
  • noun. A stain or staining; state of being in dishonor or condemnation.
  • noun. a bill brought into, or passed by, a legislative body, condemning a person to death or outlawry, and attainder, without judicial sentence.
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  • noun. The state a prisoner enters once a death sentence (usually for treason) had been issued; the state of being stripped of all civil rights.
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  • noun. cancellation of civil rights
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    "Sunday's term was bill of attainder, which is defined as:"
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