How To Use Attaint In A Sentence
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Fortescue fought at the battle of Towton and was subsequently attainted by the victorious Edward IV.
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the man was attainted
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Because complete oil path closes, can prevent dust to invade attaint bearing again.
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Cecil wanted her attainted in Parliament and executed for her alleged part in the Ridolfi plot.
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The school I'm now going to attainted is in Boston and this makes me so much more excited for it.
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After it was clear beyond dispute that the criminal was no longer fit to live, he was called attaint, stained, or blackened, and before 6 and 7 Vict., c. 85 p. 1, could not be called as a witness in any court.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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Where, risen from a doubtful seat and half attainted stall,
October 7th, 2008
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They paused facing each other, and examined eagerly into their respective means of defence before hazarding a blow, which, if it missed, its attaint would certainly be fatally requited.
Count Robert of Paris
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Dibs and dabs of news continued to filter down to the house in Carter Lane, but all of London knew of it when Will was attainted and sentenced to die.
Secrets of the Tudor Court
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Act through Parliament which declared that nothing contained in the dictatory law of Queen Anne gave the privilege of a natural born subject to any child, born or to be born abroad, whose father at the time of his or her birth either stood attainted of high treason, or was in the actual service of a foreign state in enmity to the crown of
Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton
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The careers of able officials and of CIA officers to whom the nation owed much were ruined, and they were nearly bankrupted — while the prime mover was judged too popular to attaint.
The Politics Of Vengeance
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He was posthumously attainted of treason, and along with those of other deceased regicides, his corpse was exhumed and hanged, and his skull impaled in Westminster Hall.
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Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont all provided, in their early constitutions, that the legislature had no power to attaint any person of treason.29 The federal Constitution radically restricted this king of crimes: it defined its content, once and for all, and hedged in treason trials with procedural safeguards.
A History of American Law
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The document lays out the implications of treason, then says, "... but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
Tina Dupuy: GOP: Bring Back 'Corruption of Blood'
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To the preceding we might add that not only would an "attainted" person and his children be deprived of property, he could be deprived of his freedom, jailed in the Tower for nothing more than being the victim of a legislative decree that "Mr. X is a felonious criminal.
AfterDowningStreet.org - Bush-Cheney Trials in '09
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To often ambulating , trample or wear away the place such as fierce porch, can add buy sheet small blanket, avoid carpet generation is local heavy corrupt or attaint.
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The blood of one convicted of high treason is "attaint," and his deprivations extend to his descendants, unless Parliament remove the attainder.
The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc
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This politic selection did not alter the fortune of the field, the challengers were still successful: one of their antagonists was overthrown, and both the others failed in the "attaint", [18] that is, in striking the helmet and shield of their antagonist firmly and strongly, with the lance held in a direct line, so that the weapon might break unless the champion was overthrown.
Ivanhoe
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The attaintment and maintenance of power is its own excuse.
Balkinization
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Essex -- such was the title recently bestowed on Cromwell -- was without warning arrested and attainted of high treason.
England under the Tudors
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What!" he said, "a peer without a penny! the name attainted, too, and all lands and property declared forfeit!
The King's Highway
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One of their antagonists was overthrown and both the others failed in the attaint, that is, in striking the helmet and shield of their antagonist firmly and strongly with the lance held in a direct line, so that the weapon might break unless the champion was overthrown.
Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year
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George was attainted in 1477 and murdered in the Tower of London the following year.
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Attainders could also do serious damage if they left a power vacuum in a particular region, as occurred in East Anglia when the third duke of Norfolk was attainted by Henry VIII in 1547.
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It certainly seems like Armin Glaser uh, and Mr. Rhino is attainted by this law, since his product is called out byname.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Armed Self-Defense Isn’t Supposed To Be “Sport”:
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With my name attainted by treason I can own nothing in my own right, I cannot trade or sell or buy.
The Virgin's Lover
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Fisher was deprived, attainted, and beheaded for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as supreme head of the Church.
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The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
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S: (v) dishonor, disgrace, dishonour, attaint, shame (bring shame or dishonor upon) “he dishonored his family by committing a serious crime”
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After attainting Strafford and repudiating Charles's policies during the 1630s, the Long Parliament had turned its attention to the Church and proposed the abolition of bishops and their replacement by a system of lay commissioners.
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attainted", meaning that his civil rights were nullified: he could no longer own property or pass property to his family by will or testament.
AfterDowningStreet.org - Bush-Cheney Trials in '09
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“The court declares the accused duly attainted and convicted of superstitions, impieties, sacrileges, profanations, and poisonings.”
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Others of his following failed not in the "attaint," and horses and troopers floundered in the sand.
Under the Rose
