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The Treason Act 1746〔This short title was conferred by the Short Titles Act 1896, section 1 and the first schedule.〕 (20 Geo. 2 c. 30〔Also cited as c 41 in some statute books.〕) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. The long title is "An Act for allowing Persons impeached of High Treason, whereby any Corruption of Blood may be made, or for Misprision of such Treason, to make their full Defence by Council." The Act commenced on 1 June 1747. It entitled anyone impeached by the House of Commons on a charge of high treason or misprision of treason to be defended by up to two "council learned in the law". It was repealed on 1 January 1968〔The Criminal Law Act 1967, section 11(1)〕 for England and Wales〔The Criminal Law Act 1967, section 12(1)〕 by the Criminal Law Act 1967.〔Section 10(2) and Part I of Schedule 3〕 It was repealed for the rest of the United Kingdom〔Presumed because the contrary is not specified〕 on 18 July 1973〔Date of royal assent〕 by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973.〔Section 1(1) and Part V of Schedule 1〕 ==Other legislation in the same year== *Another Act, 20 Geo. 2 c. 41, stated that any traitor who had been convicted since 24 June 1745, or who had been attainted by statute before 24 June 1748, was to automatically forfeit all of their property to the Crown, without the need for any further legal procedure whatsoever. *A third Act, 20 Geo. 2 c. 46, made it a felony, punishable with death without benefit of clergy, for anyone who had been pardoned for treason and transported to America to return to Great Britain or Ireland, or to go to the dominions of the French or Spanish kings. It was also felony for anyone else to aid and abet a pardoned traitor to commit the same offence, or to correspond with one. However an indictment had to be brought within two years.〔''Statutes at Large'', vol. XIX, Danby Pickering, Cambridge University Press, 1765.〕 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 1746」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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