Definition of: attainder

(ə·tān′dər) noun
1. The loss of all civil rights of a person, as one dead in law, upon the pronouncing of sentence of death or of outlawry against him for a capital offense.
2. Obs. Dishonor.
—bill of attainder A legal act making certain crimes punishable by attainder. [<OF ataindre attain, strike, accuse; infl. in meaning by F taindre stain]

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father s attainder
attainder clause
attainder reversed
attainder passed
attainder ex post facto
strafford s attainder
stratford s attainder
s attainder
bothwell s attainder
strafford attainder
dudley s attainder

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