- In
English criminal law,
attainder was the
metaphorical "stain" or "corruption of blood"
which arose from
being condemned for a
serious capital crime...
- A bill of
attainder (also
known as an act of
attainder, writ of
attainder, or bill of
pains and penalties) is an act of a
legislature declaring a person...
-
Algernon Sidney or
Sydney (15
January 1623 – 7
December 1683) was an
English politician,
republican political theorist and colonel. A
member of the middle...
- his execution, all of Seymour's
property was
seized by the Crown. His
attainder was
reversed by
Parliament in 1550,
although the
property was not returned...
-
attainder of
first and
second creations in 1398;
attainted 1400) The first, second, and
fourth creations lay
under attainder from 1400. The
attainder...
- Jack Cade's
Rebellion was a po****r
revolt in 1450
against the
government of England,
which took
place in the south-east of the
country between the months...
- The
Regicides of
Charles I were the men
responsible for the
execution of
Charles I on 30
January 1649. The term
generally refers to the fifty-nine commissioners...
- Parliament, the
Reversing Henry Cornish's
Attainder Act 1688 (1 Will. & Mar. c. 16) was p****ed
reversing the
attainder of Cornish. An
account of Cornish's trial...
- to London.
Following Monmouth's capture,
Parliament p****ed an Act of
Attainder, 1 Ja. 2. c. 2:
Whereas James Duke of
Monmouth has in an
hostile Manner...
- the same
remainder as his Earldom, i.e. to heirs-general. The Duke's
attainder by the
government of the
Hanoverian George I the
following year was, of...
