• A bill of attainder (also known as an act of attainder, writ of attainder, or bill of penalties) is an act of a legislature declaring a person, or a group...
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  • Attainder by verdict resulted from conviction by jury. Attainder by process resulted from a legislative act outlawing a fugitive (a bill of attainder)...
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    1507 – 19 May 1536) was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and execution by...
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  • of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. At the time of...
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    section of the first article declared, that the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless in cases of rebellion—that no bill of attainder, or ex...
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    Renato Corona (category Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the Philippines)
    is the passage of that to which the Senate president once warned—that we were veering close to a bill of attainder. A bill of attainder is a law passed...
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    conspired with him. After his execution, all of Seymour's property was seized by the Crown. His attainder was reversed by Parliament in 1550, although...
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    impeachment, and brought in and passed a bill of attainder on 21 April by a vote of 204 to 59. Owing to the opposition of the Lords, and Pym's own preference...
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  • back to the period of British India. On 11 August 2023, Amit Shah, Minister of Home Affairs, introduced the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill, 2023 in the Lok...
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    the bill of attainder passed against him, Clarence made a number of his servants swear personal loyalty to him and sent them into various parts of the...
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