corruption of blood
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of corruption of blood
First recorded in 1555–65
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"The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted."
From Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader by John L. Hülshof
The congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
From Studies in Civics by J. T. (James Thompson) McCleary
No attainder shall work corruption of blood in any case.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
Then followed those dreadful attendant penalties; confiscation of his estate and the terrible 'attainder and corruption of blood.'
From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4 by Various
“The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder shall work a corruption of blood or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted.”
From Essays on the Constitution of the United States by Paul Leicester Ford
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