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ATTAINDER, English criminal law. Attinctura, the stain or corruption of blood which arises from being condemned for any crime. 2. Attainder by confession, is either by pleading guilty at the barbefore the judges, and not putting one's self on one's trial by a jury; orbefore the coroner in sanctuary, when in ancient times, the offender wasobliged to abjure the realm. 3. Attainder by verdict, is when the prisoner at the bar pleads notguilty to the indictment, and is pronounced guilty by the verdict of thejury. 4. Attainder by process or outlawry, is when the party flies, and issubsequently outlawed. Co. Lit. 391. 5. Bill of attainder, is a bill brought into parliament for attaintingpersons condemned for high treason. By the constitution of the UnitedStates, art. 1, sect. 9, Sec. 3, it is provided that no bill of attainder orex post facto law shall be passed.

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