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The Treason Act 1708 (7 Ann c 21) is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which harmonised the law of high treason between the former kingdoms of England and Scotland following their union as Great Britain in 1707. This Act is partly still in force in Great Britain (as of 2013).〔(legislation.gov.uk )〕 ==Offences== Before the Act was passed, treason in Scotland consisted of "theft in landed men, murder under trust, wilful fire-raising, firing coalheughs, and assassination." Section 1 of the Act abolished these offences and replaced them with the English definition of high treason. The Act also applied the English offence of misprision of treason to Scotland. (However it did not extend petty treason to Scotland.) The Act also created new offences of treason. It became treason: *to counterfeit the Great Seal of Scotland (anywhere in Great Britain), and *to slay the Lords of Session or Lords of Justiciary "sitting in Judgment in the Exercise of their Office within Scotland". These new offences were similar to existing treasons in England, as in England it was already treason to kill judges or to forge the English seal. ''(For treason in English law in 1708 and today, see High treason in the United Kingdom.)'' Since 1708 treason law in Scotland has generally remained the same as in England. However while the offence of counterfeiting the Seal of Scotland was removed from English treason law in 1861,〔Sections 2 and 31 of the Forgery Act 1830 (11 Geo. IV & 1 Gul. IV c. 66) repealed and re-enacted the forgery provisions of the 1708 Act in England and Wales, and the Forgery Act 1861 repealed the 1830 Act and re-enacted this offence as a felony in section 1.〕 it is still treason in Scottish law.〔Forgery Act 1830, section 29; and Treason Act 1708, section 12.〕 Also counterfeiting the Great Seal of Great Britain (which was treason under another Act〔Forgery Act 1830, section 2; formerly 1 Mar. Stat. 2 c. 6 (1553)〕) ceased to be treason in England and became a felony in 1861.〔Forgery Act 1861〕 When the Scottish Parliament was established in 1998, treason and misprision of treason were designated as "reserved matters," meaning they fall outside its jurisdiction. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Treason Act 1708」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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