Corruption of Blood
CORRUPTION OF BLOOD
Inenglish law, the result of attainder, in that the attainted person lost all rights to inherit land or other hereditaments from an ancestor, to retain possession of such property and to transfer any property rights to anyone, including heirs, by virtue of his or her conviction fortreasonor a felony punishable by death, because the law considered the person's blood tainted by the crime.
Attainder and the consequent corruption of the blood were abolished by English statutes and are virtually unknown in the United States.
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