Show forfeiture FOR CRIME THE illinoisan published at marshalltown Marshall town ill recently had a very thoughtful editorial on the subi eject of the confiscation of mort insull mon church property from this we make the annexed extracts great abuses had existed in engl land from which we get the most of f our law by way of forfeiture of estates for crimes including treason in fight ing on the unfortunate side in civil war and there is hardly an acre of ground in england that has not been forfeited half a dozen times depending on what faction was uppermost when the other was down in fortune and these allego allege I 1 offenses not only result I 1 ed in a forfeiture of all the property of theof the offender flander but worked a corruption of his blood so thal thai his kindred and descendants could not inherit afier him where the offender was tri tried 0 d convicted and executed or when he h pleaded guilty anil and was exe executed execute cut d the abr y attainder followed so that his heirs dould could not only not dherit but he was incapable of suing in in any court in any capacity but where he got away with his head on his shoulders and escaped tafe th e realm as many an active fellow did parliament enacted against him bim and his heirs a bill of attainder our forefathers realizing the wrong and injustice of such proceed ings inge provided in the federal conati aution that no bill of attainder should the be passed but for treason the forfeiture of the property of the offender during his life only might knight be forfeited to the united states thereby excluding forfeiture for ary and all other crimes buethe but the practice of forfeiture was never transmitted or transported to this country from england and the united states never before was understood to he be capable of taking and holding the property of ano an alleged off offender dr by way of escheat or otherwise indeed there can be no enjoinment join ment of property of a living per km aron or of a corporation for offenses in this country by the federal or state government county state town or municipality |