bill of pains and penaltie

BILL OF PAINS AND PENALTIES. A special act of the legislature which inflicts 
a punishment, less than death, upon persons supposed to be guilty of high 
offences, Such as; treason and felony, without any conviction in the 
ordinary course of judicial proceedings. 2 Wood. Law Lect. 625. It differs 
from a bill of attainder in this, that the punishment inflicted by the 
latter is death. 
     2. The Constitution of the United States Provides that "no bill of 
attainder shall be passed." It has been judicially said by the supreme court 
of the United States, that " a bill of attainder may affect the life of an 
individual, or i-nay confiscate his property, or both." 6 Cranch, R. 138. in 
the sense of the constitution, then, it seems that bills of attainder 
include bills of pains and penalties. Story, Const. Sec. 1338. Vide 
Attainder; Bills of Attainder.