Confiscation Cases
Supreme Court of the United States
The question in this case arose upon a motion of Mr. Evarts, Attorney-General, in fifteen appeals from the Eastern District of Louisiana, in which judgments had been given on libels for condemnation and forfeiture — as having been employed in aid of the rebellion, with the consent of the owners — against the Trent and five other vessels, from which judgments the owners of the vessels-appealed; and given in favor of the Eleanor and eight other vessels, from which the United…
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The question in this case arose upon a motion of Mr. Evarts, Attorney-General, in fifteen appeals from the Eastern District of Louisiana, in which judgments had been given on libels for condemnation and forfeiture — as having been employed in aid of the rebellion, with the consent of the owners — against the Trent and five other vessels, from which judgments the owners of the vessels-appealed; and given in favor of the Eleanor and eight other vessels, from which the United States appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
stated the case more particularly, prior to delivering, as hereinafter, the opinion of the court.
Property owned by any person -who knowingly uses or employs the same, or who consents to the use or employment of the same in aiding, abetting, or promoting insurrection against the government of the United States, under the conditions specified in the first section of the act of the 6th of August, 1861, is declared by that act “ to be lawful subject of'prize and capture,” and all property purchased, acquired, sold, or otherwise transferred, with intent that the same may be ao used or employed, is…
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