Legal Definition and Related Resources of Bill of pains and penalties

A special act of the legislature which inflicts a punishment less than death upon persons supposed to be guilty of high offenses, such as treason and felony, without any conviction in the ordinary course of judicial proceedings. 2 Wooddeson, Lect. 625. It differs from a bill of attainder in this, that the punishment inflicted by the latter is death. It has been thought by some that the clause in the constitution prohibiting bills of attainder includes bills of pains and penalties. 6 Cranch (U.S.) 138; Story, Const. § 1338.

What does Bill Of Pains And Penalties mean in American Law?

The definition of Bill Of Pains And Penalties in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:

A milder form of bill of attainder, brought with respect to lesser crimes than felonies and prescribing lesser penalties than death. It too is deemed to be forbidden in the U.S. by the bill-of-attainder provisions of the Constitution.

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