High Treason - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: high treasonHigh treason
high is not now usually retained when speaking of this highest civil crime it is merely denominated treason see treason … high treason since petit treason was abolished by 9 geo 4 c 31 s 2
High Steward, Court of the Lord
is not pro perly in the court of the lord high steward but before the high court of parliament a lord … it the sovereign in case a peer be indicted for treason felony or misprision appoints a lord high ste ward pro
Constructive treason
by the simple genuine letter of the law and therefore highly dangerous to public freedom erskine s defence of lord george … constructive treason an attempt to establish treason by circumstantiality and not by
Prerogative of mercy
for the literal execution of the sentence in cases of high treason or to change the sentence of death by hanging … the literal execution of the sentence in cases of high treason or to change the sentence of death by hanging for
High Steward of the Universities, Court of the Lord
privileged person they were to be tried before the lord high steward or his deputy who is nominated by the chancellor … granted to the university of oxford of all indictments of treasons insurrections felonies and mayhem which should be found in any
King's Bench
crown side it took cognizance of all criminal causes from high treason down to the most trivial misdemeanour or breach of … side it took cognizance of all criminal causes from high treason down to the most trivial misdemeanour or breach of the
Alta proditio
alta proditio high treason now simply called treason … alta proditio high treason now simply called treason
Capital punishment
the mode in the united kingdom is hanging but for high treason the crown may alter it to beheading see the … the crown may alter it to beheading see the english treason act 1814 54 geo 3 c 146 as amended by
Treason
majesty an offence against the duty of allegiance and the highest known crime for it aims at the very destruction of … as read with s 30 of the interpretation act 1889 treason consisting in the imagining bodily harm to the king in
Indictment
in the king s bench division indictments were of a highly technical character until simplified by the indictments act 1915 which … of certain enactments set out in the 1st schedule high treason and certain other offences tribal in the king s bench
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