Parliament officially stripped him, as well as many loyal to Henry VI, of his properties with acts of attainder. |
Acorn has filed a lawsuit arguing that the statute banning the government from providing it money amounts to a bill of attainder. |
For this reason, and for no other, the attainder of Fenwick is to be condemned. |
Parliament made acts of attainder one day, and reversed them almost on the next. |
The House of Lords approved the bill of attainder, and it was sent to the king. |
Such attacks normally took one of two forms, either that of prosecutions and fines at law for misfeasance, or the more drastic resort of attainder and forfeiture. |