Sentence examples for treason act from inspiring English sources

Truss tells the story of Roger Casement, who was charged under the Treason Act of 1351.

With the Treason Act of 1695, there began a long and important era of reform in English criminal procedure.

The Treason Act 1945, updating "complex and archaic" procedures from the 17th century, will also be scrapped.

"It was no fun to be discussed in the Houses of Parliament, under a traitor and treason act – that wasn't what everyone was doing," Lydon retorted.

Its sole remaining purpose was to extend the Treason Act 1800 to Northern Ireland – legislation that was itself repealed in 1967.

The Treason Act was last used to hang the wartime Nazi propagandist William Joyce, alias Lord Haw-Haw, in the 1940s.

The passing of the Supremacy and Treason acts at the end of the year made denial of the royal titles treasonable.

In case any of this should be resisted, Parliament passed the Treasons Act 1534, which made it high treason punishable by death to deny Royal Supremacy.

The Act of Supremacy in 1534 declared that the King was "the only Supreme Head in Earth of the Church of England" and the Treasons Act 1534 made it high treason, punishable by death, to refuse the Oath of Supremacy acknowledging the King as such.

He was accused of sedition and arrested and tried under the Treason Felony Act of 1848.

The Ministry of Justice said: "Section 3 of the Treason Felony Act 1848 has not been repealed.