Morris's Cotton
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from tbe District Court for tbe Middle" District of Alabama. Three acts of Congress, one of July 13th, 1861, another of August 6th, 1861,'and a third of July 17th, 1862, passed during the late rebellion, authorized the seizure and confiscation in the District or Circuit Courts of property used for insurrectionary purposes, and to a certain extent prescribed tbe mode of proceeding.
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Appeal from tbe District Court for tbe Middle" District of Alabama. Three acts of Congress, one of July 13th, 1861, another of August 6th, 1861,'and a third of July 17th, 1862, passed during the late rebellion, authorized the seizure and confiscation in the District or Circuit Courts of property used for insurrectionary purposes, and to a certain extent prescribed tbe mode of proceeding. Under one of these acts it was decided, in the Union Insurance Company v. United States and in Armstrong's Foundry,* that while proceedings-for the condemnation of property or land might be shaped in the'form…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice-CLIFFORD
gave the details of the ease, and delivered the opinion of the court.
Forfeiture of the property seized in this ease is claimed in the libel of information, as amended, upon several distinct grounds, of which the following are the most material.:
1. Because the owner purchased the cotton of an inhabitant of a State or district in insurrection, as lawfully declared by the President in his proclamation to that effect, and in violation of the provision which prohibited “ all commercial intercourse between such States or districts” so long as such hostilities should continue. *
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