Miller v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court' for the Eastern District of Michigan. This was a proceeding begun originally in the District Court for the district just named, to forfeit certain personal property belonging to one Samuel Miller, now deceased, in his lifetime, under the act of Congress of August 6th, 1861, entitled “ An act to confiscate property used for insurrectionary purposes;”* and the act of July 17th, 1862, entitled “An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and…
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Error to the Circuit Court' for the Eastern District of Michigan. This was a proceeding begun originally in the District Court for the district just named, to forfeit certain personal property belonging to one Samuel Miller, now deceased, in his lifetime, under the act of Congress of August 6th, 1861, entitled “ An act to confiscate property used for insurrectionary purposes;”* and the act of July 17th, 1862, entitled “An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, aud for other purposes.”† The act of August 6th, 1861,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Steong
This was a proceeding under the acts of Congress of August 6th, 1861, and July 17th, 1862, to confiscate shares of stock in two corporations created by the State of Michigan. The stock had been seized by the marshal of the district, acting indirectly under orders of the President of the United States. The marshal made return to the district attorney that he had seized it, with all dividends, interest, and moneys due thereon, specifying in his return the stock-certificates by which it was represented, and describing the mode of seizure to have been serving a notice thereof personally upon the…
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