| 单词 | corruption of blood |
| 释义 | > as lemmascorruption of blood b. Law. corruption of blood: the effect of an attainder upon a person attainted, by which his blood was held to have become tainted or ‘corrupted’ by his crime, so that he and his descendants lost all rights of rank and title; in consequence of which he could no longer retain possession of land which he held, nor leave it to heirs, nor could his descendants inherit from him. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > withdrawal or loss of legal rights > [noun] > attainder tainder1469 attainder1473 attaintment1549 attainturea1552 corruption of blood1563 attincturec1575 attaindure1577 attaint1597 taintment1614 attaindrie1628 1563 Act 5 Eliz. c. 1 This Act..shall not extend to make any corruption of blood. 1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) i. viii. 54 Moreouer that they shall sustaine corruption of their bloud and family. 1721 London Gaz. No. 5927/11 No Attainder..shall extend to work any Corruption of Blood. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 381 It is to be hoped, that this corruption of blood, with all it's connected consequences, not only of present escheat, but of future incapacities of inheritance even to the twentieth generation, may..be abolished by act of parliament. 1813 Sir S. Romilly in Examiner 22 Feb. 117/2 The next thing to which he objected, was the corruption of blood, which was a very different thing from the usual cases of forfeiture. 1862 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 3) App. ii. 414 In the United States..an attainder does not work corruption of blood. < as lemmas |
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