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Constructive Treason

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Constructive treason, an attempt to establish treason by circumstantiality and not by the simple genuine letter of the law, and therefore highly dangerous to public freedom, Erskine's Defence of Lord George Gordon; 3 Hall, Const. Hit. c. xv. See TREASON.

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