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High Steward, Court of the Lord

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Alta proditio

Alta proditio, high treason; now simply called treason.

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Misprision [fr. mepris, Fr.], neglect, negligence, or oversight. All such high offences as are under the degree of capital, but nearly bordering thereon, are misprisions; and it is said … capital, but nearly bordering thereon, are misprisions; and it is said that a misprision is contained in every treason and felony whatsoever, and that, if the Crown so please, the offender may be proceeded against for the

Constructive treason

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Prerogative of mercy

alter the sentence, either to obviate the necessity for the literal execution of the sentence in cases of high treason, or to change the sentence of death by hanging for felony into one of decapitation: cf. Advice given … Home Secretary by the judges who formed the Special Commission before whom Frost and others were tried for high treason in 1839, see Queen v. Frost, (1839) 4 St Tr (NS) 85 (479, 480). The anomaly of pardoning

King's Bench

the plea side of the Court. On the Crown side it took cognizance of all criminal causes, from high treason down to the most trivial misdemeanour or breach of the peace, and into it also indictments from all

Capital punishment

1888 under the Act. See SENTENCE OF DEATH. The mode in the United Kingdom is hanging, but for high treason the Crown may alter it to beheading: see the (English) Treason Act, 1814 (54 Geo. 3, c. 146),

Impeachment

of Commons before the House of Lords of any person, either peer or commoner, for treason, or other high crimes and misdemeanours, or of a peer for any crime; in modern times rarely been resorted to, though

Criminal information

Criminal information, a proceeding in the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice at the suit of the king,without a previous indictment or presentment by a grand jury. … of the High Court, without the intervention of a grandjury. It lies for misdemeanours only, and not for treasons or felonies. The informationis filed in the Crown Office without the previous leave of the Court. (2) Information

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