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Meaning Of Attaint
v. t.
To attain; to get act; to hit.
v. t.
To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on
trial for giving a false verdict.
v. t.
To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly
resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect
of treason or felony; to affect by attainder.
v. t.
To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable
act.
v. t.
To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease
or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.
v. t.
To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud
with infamy.
p. p.
Attainted; corrupted.
v.
A touch or hit.
v.
A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by
overreaching.
v.
A writ which lies after judgment, to inquire whether a
jury has given a false verdict in any court of record; also, the
convicting of the jury so tried.