 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1920 - 345 pages
...this act shall take effect from and after its passage." Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish...rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: "SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That... | |
 | James Brown Scott - International law - 1922 - 1196 pages
...the Circuit Court for the District of Virginia. On the 17th of July, 1862, Congress passed an act, entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish...confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes." This act provided for the seizure and confiscation of the property of persons holding certain offices... | |
 | Thomas James Norton - Constitutional history - 1922 - 298 pages
...attainted.116 116 Congress ran counter to this limitation during the Civil War. It passed (July 17, 1862) an act "to suppress insurrection, to punish treason...seize and confiscate the property of rebels", and for some other purposes, which was called the Confiscation Act. To insure the speedy termination of the... | |
 | Thomas James Norton - Constitutional history - 1922 - 298 pages
...attainted.116 116 Congress ran counter to this limitation during the Civil War. It passed (July 17, 1862) an act "to suppress insurrection, to punish treason...seize and confiscate the property of rebels", and for some other purposes, which was called the Confiscation Act. To insure the speedy termination of the... | |
 | United States - Constitutional history - 1896 - 20 pages
...act shall take effect from and after its passage." Also, to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled " An Act to suppress Insurrection, to punish Treason and Rebellion, to seize and confiscate Property of Rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 16, 1862, and which sections are in the... | |
 | Augustin Derby - Criminal law - 1923 - 825 pages
...States. The indictment is framed under the second section of the act of Congress of July 17, 1862, entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish...confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes ;" and it charges the commission of acts, which, in the judgment of the court, amount to treason within... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1906
...superintendence and direction of all proceedings to be had under the act of Congress of the 17th of July, 1862, entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish...confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," in so far as may concern the seizure, prosecution, and condemnation of the estate, property, and effects... | |
 | Iredell Meares - Trading with the enemy - 1924 - 711 pages
...as settled by the highest federal judicial authority. An act of Congress passed July 17, 1862, was entitled 'an act to suppress insurrection, to punish...confiscate the property of rebels and for other purposes.' The sixth section provided that if any person within any state or territory of the United States, being... | |
 | Charles Buxton Going - Statesmen - 1924 - 787 pages
...act emerged safely from conference stronger than it had left the Senate, and with the title, "A bill to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion,...and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purpose." 7 If Wilmot, as just said, was dissatisfied with the efficacy of the bill as passed, Lincoln... | |
 | Peyton Boyle - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913
...has had occasion to pass on the principle involved in cases arising under the Act of July 17, 1862, entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish...confiscate the property of rebels and for other purposes." which provided that the proceedings against the property seized snail be in rem and "shall conform... | |
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