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XXII.—Some Historical Aspects of the English Law of Attainder and Forfeiture for High Treason
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
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A knowledge of the working of the English Law of Attainder and Forfeiture for High Treason is essential to a proper understanding of the History of England in the Middle Ages, especially during the period of the Wars of the Roses.
Perhaps the working of the law can be shown best in individual cases. Let us select as examples the fortunes of the dignities and estates which but for forfeiture and other intervening circumstances would have centred in the ill-fated Edward Earl of Warwick, last male scion of the splendid House of Plantagenet.
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page 413 note b The decision by virtue of which James second Duke of Atholl was succeeded on his death in 1704 by his nephew John, son of the attainted but then deceased Lord George Murray, seems to me conclusive on the point. The English law of forfeiture for high treason applied then to Scottish dignities and estates.
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page 423 note a Or with that of the succession of John, son of the attainted Lord George Murray, to the Dukedom of Athol.
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