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bill of attainder

noun

Definitions

  1. A legislative determination imposing punishment without trial.

    • They resolved to copy a Tudor precedent and to proceed against him by bill of attainder. Doubts of law and defects of evidence would thus be cured
    • Coupled with the Constitution's proscription of ex post facto laws is a similar prohibition against bills of attainder.

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