Sentence examples for offences of treason from inspiring English sources

Your criticisms of Hong Kong's proposals for laws covering offences against the state are not warranted ("Subverting autocracy" and "Death by slow boiling", September 28th).You correctly report that the proposed offences of treason, secession, sedition and subversion all require the commission of or the incitement to commit acts of violence against people, property or services.

"That does raise questions about their loyalty and allegiance to this country and about whether, as my honourable friend rightly says, the offence of treason could have been committed.

Lody was charged with two offences of war treason concerning the two letters he had sent from Edinburgh on 27 September and Dublin on 30 September.

But the right to use it as a defence remained – except for offences of murder and treason – and it is still valid today, though there have been only a handful of cases.

The police have accused him of treason, a capital offence, though he has yet to be charged.

Hale, along with John Herne, argued that none of Laud's alleged offences constituted treason, and that the Treason Act 1351 had abolished all common law treasons.

The new law offered a narrower definition of treason than had existed before and split the old feudal offence into two classes.

The book dealt with the criminal capacity of infants, insanity and idiocy, the defence of drunkenness, capital offences, treason, homicide and theft.

The last offences – including treason – went in 1998, and the UK signed the 13th protocol of the European convention on human rights in 2003-4, so there the decision remains for the future.

Many face charges of treason.

In 1079 Stanislaus was accused of treason.