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What is an attainder?

What is an attainder? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law, rare) The state a prisoner enters once a death sentence (usually for treason) had been issued; the state of being stripped of all civil rights.
  2. (obsolete) A stain; a state of dishonour or condemnation.
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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.

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