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Compassing [fr. compasser, Fr., to encircle, con, with, and passus, a step, Lat.], imagining or contriving. To compass or imagine the death of the king, of his queen, or of their eldest son and heir is treason by 25 Edw. 3, c. 2. 'Compassing' or 'imagining' are here synonymous terms, the word 'compass' signifying the purpose or design of the mind or will, and not, as in common speech, the carrying such design to effect; but this compassing or imagining, being an act of the mind, cannot fall under any judicial cognizance unless it be demonstrated by some open, or overt, act, See 4 Bl. Com. 78....
Sea compass
The mariners compass See under Compass...
Compassable
Capable of being compassed or accomplished...
Compassing
Curved bent as compassing timbers...
Calipers
An instrument usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies as of work shaped in a lathe or planer timber masts shot etc or the bore of firearms tubes etc called also caliper compasses or caliber compasses...
Bow pen
Bow compasses carrying a drawing pen See Bow compass...
Pelorus
An instrument similar to a mariners compass but without magnetic needles and having two sight vanes by which bearings are taken esp such as cannot be taken by the compass...
Rosinweed
The compass plant See under Compass...
Treason
Treason [fr. trahir, Fr., to betray; proditio, Lat.], or leze-majesty, an offence against the duty of allegiance, and the highest known crime, for it aims at the very destruction of the commonwealth itself. Five species of treason are declared by the Treason Act, 1351, or 'Statute of Treasons' (25 Edw. 3, st. 5, c. 2), as follows:-(1) When a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king (a queen regnant is within these words), of our lady his queen or of their eldest son and heir.(2) If a man do violate the king's companion (i.e., his wife), or the king's eldest daughter unmarried, or the wife of the king's eldest son and heir.(3) If a man do levy war against our lord the king in his realm. (After a battle has taken place, it is termed bellum percussum; before it, bellum levatum.)(4) If a man be adherent to the king's enemies in his realm, giving to them aid or comfort in the realm or elsewhere.(5) If a man slay the chancellor, treasurer, or the king's justices assigned to...
Treason felony
Treason felony, means an act that shows an intention of committing treason, unaccompanied by any further act to carry out that intention, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1507.Treason felony. Treason-felony is, like treason, a purely statutory offence. by the Treason-Felony Act, 1848, s. 3, as read with s. 30 of the Interpretation Act, 1889, 'If any person shall, within the United Kingdom or without, compass to depose the King, or to levy war against him, within any part of the United Kingdom, in order to compel him to change his counsels, or in order to intimidate or overawe Parliament, or to stir any foreigner with force to invade the United Kingdom, or any other His Majesty's dominions, and such compassings shall express by writing, or by open or advised speaking, or by any overt act, he shall be guilty of felony.'...
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