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Attainder, acts of,

In English law, punishing a person by declaring his “blood attainted,” and involving forfeiture of property, have been numerous. Two witnesses in cases of high treason were necessary where corruption of blood was incurred, unless the party accused confess or stand mute. In the United States the Constitution explicitly says: “No bill of attainder shall be passed, and no attainder of treason, in consequence of a judicial sentence, shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted.”

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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