单词 | bill of attainder |
释义 | bill of attainder in British Englishnoun (formerly) a legislative act finding a person guilty without trial of treason or felony and declaring him or her attainted See also attainder (sense 1)bill of attainder in American English a legislative enactment by which a person is pronounced guilty, without trial, of an alleged crime, orig. a capital crime, esp. treason: prohibited in the U.S. by the Constitution |
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