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    The Treason Act 1800 (39 & 40 Geo. 3 c. 93) was an Act of the Parliament of the Kingdom of Great Britain. It assimilated the procedure on trials for treason...
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  • Treason Act or Treasons Act (and variations thereon) or Statute of Treasons is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom and in the...
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    The Treason Act 1547 (1 Edw. 6. c. 12) was an Act of the Parliament of England. It is mainly notable for being the first instance of the rule that two...
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    rules made it difficult to prosecute charges of treason, and the rule was relaxed by the Treason Act 1800 to make attempts on the life of the King subject...
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    The Treason Act 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 51) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It was passed early in the reign...
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    English criminal law. Section 1 of the Act applied the Treason Act 1800 to all cases of treason and misprision of treason, subject to five separate repeals...
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  • England and Wales, petty treason ceased to be a distinct offence from murder by virtue of the Offences against the Person Act 1828. It was abolished in...
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    The Treason Act 1695 (7 & 8 Will. 3. c. 3) is an Act of the Parliament of England which laid down rules of evidence and procedure in high treason trials...
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    guilty, since this was not an ordinary crime (The Treason Act 1800 was passed in July 1800 to make treason by attempting to kill the King subject to the same...
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    The Treason Act 1814 (54 Geo. 3. c. 146) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland which modified the penalty for...
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    The Treason Act 1746 (20 Geo. 2. c. 30) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The long title is "An Act for allowing Persons impeached of High...
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    The Treason Act 1702 (1 Ann. St. 2. c. 21) is an Act of the Parliament of England, passed to enforce the line of succession to the English throne (today...
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    The Treason (Ireland) Act 1821 (1 & 2 Geo 4 c 24) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It extended most of the English Treason Act 1695 to...
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    The Treason Act 1795 (sometimes also known as the Treasonable and Seditious Practices Act) (36 Geo. 3. c. 7) was one of the Two Acts introduced by the...
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  • committing high treason or treason. The maximum penalty is 14 years. Under section 3 of the Treason Act 1939 a person is guilty of misprision of treason if "knowing...
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    The Treason Act 1554 (1 & 2 Ph. & M. c. 10) was an Act of the Parliament of England. It is not to be confused with two other Acts about treason passed...
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    The Treason Act 1442 (20 Hen. 6. c. 3) was an Act of the Parliament of England. It made it high treason for any Welshman to "drive, bring, carry away...
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    The Treason Act 1423 or the Escape Act 1423 (2 Hen. 6. c. 21) was an Act of the Parliament of England. It made it high treason for a person who had been...
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  • James Hadfield (category People acquitted of treason)
    passed the Criminal Lunatics Act 1800 to provide for the indefinite detention of insane defendants (and the Treason Act 1800 to make it easier to prosecute...
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    The Treason Act 1553 (1 Mar. Sess. 1. c. 1) was an Act of the Parliament of England. (It should not be confused with another Act about treason passed in...
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  • punish treason. Four of the 13 colonies had enacted treason statutes by 1800, and four more had done so by 1820. The remaining four colonies had treason laws...
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    The Treason Act 1543 (35 Hen. 8. c. 2) was an Act of the Parliament of England passed during the reign of King Henry VIII of England, which stated that...
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    an Act of the Parliament of England passed in 1488. It made it high treason to counterfeit coinage from other countries. (It was already treason to counterfeit...
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    copies of which were to be sent to the Privy Council in England. The Act made it treason for any unauthorised person to open these, or to neglect to deliver...
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    The Treason Act 1551 (5 & 6 Edw. 6. c. 11) was an Act of the Parliament of England. The Act was described as "purely procedural" by the House of Lords...
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    The Treason Act 1429 (8 Hen. 6. c. 6) was an Act of the Parliament of England. It made it high treason for a person to threaten to burn someone's house...
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    Treason Act 1945 (8 & 9 Geo. 6. c. 44), by which time it had long been obsolete. Treason Act Treason (Ireland) Act 1821 The Irish Statutes 1310–1800 Revised...
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    The Treason Act 1536 (28 Hen. 8. c. 24), an English Act of Parliament passed by parliament during the reign of Henry VIII. Two clauses of the Attainder...
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    The Treason Act 1586 or the Errors in Attainders Act 1586 (29 Eliz. 1. c. 2) was an Act of the Parliament of England. Its long title was "An act concerning...
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    The Treason Act 1415 (4 Hen. 5. Stat. 1. c. 6) was an Act of the Parliament of England which made clipping coins high treason, punishable by death. (It...
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