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	Treason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By virtue of the Treason Act 1708, the law of treason in Scotland is the same as the law in England, save that in Scotland counterfeiting the Great Seal of Scotland and the slaying of the Lords of Session and Lords of Justiciary were adjudged treason until 1945.
		The penalty for treason was changed from death to a maximum of imprisonment for life in 1998 under the Crime And Disorder Act.
		The Treason Act 1695 enacted, among other things, a rule that treason could only be proved in a trial by the evidence of two witnesses to the same overt act.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Treason (2288 words)

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		For instance, at common law treason was not bailable (except by the king's bench) nor clergyable, could not be cleared by sanctuary, and did not admit of accessories before or after the fact, for all were principals, nor could a married woman plead coercion by her husband.
		The punishment of treason at common law was barbarous in the extreme.' The sentence in the case of a man was that the Punish- offender be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execumeat.
		The act further provides for the finding of the indictment by a grand jury as in England and that the trial is to be by a jury of twelve, not fifteen as in other crimes, before the court of justiciary, or a commission of oyer and terminer containing at least three lords of justiciary.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?locale=en&content_id=66583 (6146 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Treason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		By virtue of the Treason Act 1708, the law of treason in Scotland is the same as the law in England, save that in Scotland counterfeiting the Great Seal of Scotland (the Forgery Act 1830 does not apply to Scotland) and the slaying of the Lords of Session and Lords of Justiciary are adjudged treason.
		However, instead of being tried for treason, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder US nationals, aiding the Taliban and terrorist offences relating to Al Qaeda, even though he joined the Taliban before September 11, 2001, in the period when the Bush administration was aiding the Taliban to help their destruction of the opium crop.
		Treason has become largely a wartime phenomenon in the 20th century, and the treason cases of World Wars One and Two were of minor significance.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Treason (2322 words)

	TREASON - LoveToKnow Article on TREASON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The punishment of treason at common law was barbarous in the extreme.1 The sentence in the case of a man was that the Punish- offender be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execumeat.
		The act further provides for the finding of the indictment by a grand j~iry as in England and that the trial is to be by a jury of twelve, not fifteen as in other crimes, before the court of justiciary, or a commission of oyer and terminer containing at least three lords of justiciary.
		Treason against the United States cannot be inquired into by any stote court, but the states may, and some of them have, their own constitutions and legislation as to treasons committed against themselves, generally following the lines of the constitution and legislation of the United States.
	15.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TR/TREASON.htm (7559 words)

	Treachery Act 1940 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Acts of Parliament of the Kingdom of England to 1600
		Acts of Parliament of the Kingdom of England to 1706
		Acts of Parliament of the Kingdom of Scotland
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Treachery (319 words)

	Treason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A notable treason trial occurred at the Old Bailey in 1916 when Sir Roger Casement was accused of siding with Germany in World War I for his role in the Easter Uprising in Ireland.
		Treason, along with piracy with violence and arson in royal dockyards, remained one of the last offences in the United Kingdom that attracted the death penalty after it was abolished for murder in 1965.
		However, instead of being tried for treason, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder US nationals, aiding the Taliban and terrorist offences relating to Al Qaeda, even though he joined the Taliban before September 11, 2001, in the period when the United States was aiding the Taliban to help their destruction of the opium crop.
	www.educhy.com /index.php/Treason (2097 words)

	Treason - Free net encyclopedia
		Treason, along with piracy with violence and arson in royal dockyards, remained one of the last offences in the United Kingdom that entailed the death penalty after it was abolished for murder in 1965.
		The death penalty for treason and the other remaining offences was finally abolished by Section 36 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998[2] (1998 c.37).
		However, instead of being tried for treason, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder US nationals, aiding the Taliban and terrorist offences relating to Al Qaeda, even though he joined the Taliban during the period before September 11, 2001 when the United States was aiding the Taliban to help their destruction of the opium crop.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Treason (2352 words)

	Lord Chancellor
		He still outranks the Prime Minister in official precedence, and killing the king's chancellor is still an act of treason under the Treason Act 1351.
		In total there are 347 current Acts of Parliament that refer specifically to the Lord Chancellor, ranging from the Treason Act 1351 to the Finance Act 2003.
		Recent media reports suggest that while the Lords may consent to some reforms, including the Government's plans to create a supreme court to assume the judicial functions of the House of Lords, it is unlikely to assent to the outright abolition of the Lord Chancellorship.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/l/lo/lord_chancellor.html (1551 words)

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		In all the circumstances of the case the appellant had, at the material times, adhered to the King's enemies beyond the realm and was, therefore, guilty of treason within the meaning of the Treason Act, 1351.
		Treason, " trahison" is the betrayal of a trust: to be faithful to the trust is the counterpart of the duty to protect.
		The contention is a different one: it is that by the holding of a passport he asserts and maintains the relation in which he formerly stood, claiming the continued protection of the Crown and thereby pledging the continuance of his fidelity.
	lawcourses.haifa.ac.il /internationalCriminalLaw/index/main/syllabus/4/2.doc (7216 words)

	Spying
		High Treason (the highest form of treason - against the King/Queen) is the act committed when an allegiance, which is owed by a citizen, is broken.
		Treason trials often resolve around questions of establishing whether allegiance is owed.
		To find someone guilty under the Treachery Act, all that is required is to show that the acts the accused committed, or intended to commit, would endanger the forces of the crown including personnel as well as physical objects.
	www.stephen-stratford.co.uk /spying.htm (964 words)

	treason
		Oran's Dictionary of the Law (1983) defines treason as: "...[a]...citizen's actions to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the [parent nation]." It is also generally considered treason to attempt or conspire to overthrow the government.
		This fell through as he had been in the employment of the British Government almost all his adult life as a diplomat and had accepted a Knighthood from the King and a pension from the British Government on his retirement in 1911.
		The last execution for treason in the United Kingdom was held in 1946 The defendant was William Joyce (a.k.a.
	www.governpub.com /Banned-Books-T/treason.php (1979 words)

	Treason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism
		Often times, such accusations are controversial and disputed, as the person may not identify with the group of which they are a member, or may otherwise disagree with the group leaders making the charge.
		Senator Joseph McCarthy referred to "twenty years of treason" (1933-1953, the Administrations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S Truman) when numerous communist spy rings involving hundreds of agents were operating inside the United States government.
	en.orangehedgehog.com /content/Treason (2444 words)

	Postman Patel: The Lunatics HAVE taken over the Asylum
		The repeal of the Treason Act 1817 and Section 2 of the Treason Felony Act 1848 are consequential to the repeal of the Treason Act 1795 in Clause 30… etc
		It is, however, evident from the Hansard records that the repeal was considered to be a necessary consequence of the decision to repeal the death penalty for treason.
		Baroness Scotland of Asthal entering into the fun of the proceedings, and wearing carefully colour co-ordinated spectacles to match her beautifully tailored suit, looked over her spectacles perched on the end of her exquisite nose and was anxious at elaborate, forced and courteous length to patronise my Lord Tebbit..
	postmanpatel.blogspot.com /2005/08/lunatics-have-taken-over-asylum.html (1222 words)

	Lords Hansard text for 7 Mar 2005 (250307-02)
		Why they have been unable to inform members of the public who have inquired the reason for the repeal of the Treason Act 1795 during the passage of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.
		The substantive offences that were contained in the 1795 Act are covered by other parts of the criminal law including the Treason Act 1351 relating to conspiracy and incitement.
		To help your Lordships, there was the Treason Act 1351, the Treason Act 1702, the Treason Act 1842 and the Treason Felony Act 1848, which all amplified our splendid common law offence, so Scotland is safe.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/ld199900/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds05/text/50307-02.htm (1418 words)

	UK official rules out treason charge -DAWN - International; August 10, 2005
		The ancient charge of treason — one of the gravest on Britain’s statute books — was among a range of options explored by senior prosecutors and police officers at a meeting on Monday.
		The law of treason, which has developed over the years from the 1351 Treason Act and includes the Treason Felony Act 1848, has not been used since the 1940s and — since 1998 — no longer carries the ultimate punishment of death.
		John Spencer, a professor of law at Cambridge University, said resorting to treason legislation was ‘utterly pointless’.
	www.dawn.com /2005/08/10/int5.htm (397 words)

	Everything about Collaboration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4131696.stm] Along with piracy with violence and arson in Her Majesty's dockyards, treason remained one of the last offences in the United Kingdom that attracted a death penalty.
		The death penalty for treason was abolished in the United Kingdom by Section 36 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998[http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1998/98037--e.htm#36] (1998 c.37).
		This civil war can be seen as the continuation of a fracture that divided French society since the 19th century or even the French Revolution, illustrated by events such as the Dreyfus Affair and the riots in the 1930s (see Action Française).
	wikimiki.org /en/collaboration (12361 words)

	Magna Carta to Wyclif by Sanderson Beck
		John, who frequently acted out of anger and resentment, demanded that the bishop of Norwich, John de Grey, be elected instead, and the King sent off a deputation to the Pope with a gift of 12,000 marks.
		He married a lady of the English court and for ten years went on many diplomatic missions to France and the Low Countries "on the King's secret affairs." Chaucer was a close friend of John of Gaunt and was aided by him in court life.
		In 1401 Parliament passed England's first act for burning heretics, and the statute specifically cited the Lollards for having wrong thoughts about the sacraments and for usurping the office of preaching.
	www.san.beck.org /GPJ11-ChartertoWyclif.html (6246 words)

	Articles - Treason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		During the Second World War, the crime of treachery was created under the Treachery Act 1940, with the death penalty being the mandatory sentence, or otherwise aided the enemy was liable to be prosecuted for treachery, which was easier to prove than high treason because allegiance to the Crown did not have to be proven.
		The death penalty for treason and the other remaining offences was finally abolished by Section 36 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (1998 c.37).
		for inciting murder (he was convicted in February 2006), and it now seems unlikely that anyone will be charged with treason in the forseeable future.
	www.bronzebass.com /articles/Treason (2259 words)

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		It was recognized, by the various Prime Ministers of the British Commonwealth of Nations, during the Imperial Conferences of 1926 and 1930, that the Style and Title of the King of the United Kingdom, as Head of the Commonwealth, was for some Member countries no longer appropriate.
		Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to confer any power to repeal or alter the Constitution or the Constitution Act of the Commonwealth of Australia or the Constitution Act of the Dominion of New Zealand otherwise than in accordance with the law existing before the commencement of this Act.” 6 “9.
		Therefore the Governors of the States, and Governor-General must at all material times be appointed by the Sovereign in Council, and the Sovereign in Parliament at Westminster, Elizabeth II by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland Her other Realms and Territories, Defender of the Faith.
	casual.5u.com /auPT5.html (428 words)

	Letters From a Small Hedgehog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The British government seems to be preparing a treason indictment against one of the more radical imams in London.
		The law itself is still based on the Treason Act of 1351, which remains-- in Norman French --on the books.
		And I do believe that a supplemental Treason Act of 1537 is still in force-- a supplemental act mandating hanging for "slandering the Kynge" in Ireland.
	raven72d.diaryland.com /050808_31.html (1274 words)

	The Unspeakable in Pursuit By Edward Teague
		The hounds were going along looking as though they had been painted by Stubbs or Gainsborough and this gel said to me: “It is better than an orgasm and it lasts a hell of a lot longer”.
		The trial of Katherine Gun for offences against the Secrets Act was withdrawn and was followed next day (26th Feb 2004) by revelations from ex-Cabinet Minister Clare Short claiming that she had seen transcripts of bugged conversations of Kofi Annan in his UN office.
		My Lord Onslow, again no doubt fortified by a decent lunch, perhaps at Boodle’s, lit upon an apparent inconsistency, we were to substitute death with life imprisonment under the Treason Act (Ireland) 1537 but repeal the Treason Act 1790.
	www.williambowles.info /guests/2005/unspeakable.html (2090 words)

	STATUTORY TEXTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Note the broad definition of treason, which includes simply "imagining" the king's death.
		The act as presented is in English translation and includes only the part still in force; the original included many other acts, like counterfeiting the coinage of the realm.
		The act (beginning in section 22) allows Welsh to be used in legal proceedings.
	www.tiersma.com /STATS/STATUTES.HTM (491 words)

	TREASON ACT OF 1351 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Declaration what offences shall be adjudged treason (as in force today)
		Item, whereas divers opinions have been before this time in what case
		judged treason which extends to our lord the King, and his royal majesty:.
	www.tiersma.com /STATS/TREASON.HTM (226 words)

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