Union Insurance v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana; the case being thus: An act of Congress, of August 6th, 1861, passed during the late rebellion, and entitled “ An act to confiscate property used for insurrectionary purposes,” provides, in different sections, as follows: The first section provides that property used in aid of the rebellion, with consent of the owner, shall be the “lawful subject of prize and capture…
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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana; the case being thus: An act of Congress, of August 6th, 1861, passed during the late rebellion, and entitled “ An act to confiscate property used for insurrectionary purposes,” provides, in different sections, as follows: The first section provides that property used in aid of the rebellion, with consent of the owner, shall be the “lawful subject of prize and capture wherever found,” and makes it the duty of the President to cause it “to be seized, confiscated, and condemned.” The second…
1Opinion of the Court
The CHIEF JUSTICE
delivered the opinion of the court.
The first questions in this cause relate to jurisdiction.
It was urged in argument, that the act of Congress does not authorize the proceedings instituted in the Circuit Court.
The answer to this proposition must be determined by the construction of the act.
It is sufficiently obvious that the general object of the enactment was to promote the suppression of rebellion by subjecting property employed in aid of it with the owner’s consent, to confiscation. It extended to all descriptions of property, real or personal, on land or on water. All…
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