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TREASON ACT 1795

TREASON ACT 1795 - LONG TITLE

An Act for the Safety and Preservation of His Majesty's Person and
Government against treasonable and seditious Practices and Attempts.{1}
[18th December 1795]
Preamble.

Persons who shall compass, advise, &c. the death, restraint, &c. of
his Majesty or his heirs, to be deemed traitors.

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TREASON ACT 1795 - SECT 1

1.] IF any person or persons whatsoever... shall, within the realm
or without, compass, imagine, invent, devise or intend death or
destruction, or any bodily harm tending to death or destruction,
maim or wounding, imprisonment or restraint, of the person of... our
sovereign lord the King, his heirs and successors,... and such
compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices or intentions, or any
of them, shall express, utter or declare, by publishing any printing
or writing, or by any overt act or deed, being legally convicted
thereof upon the oaths of two lawful and credible witnesses upon
trial, or otherwise convicted or attainted by due course of law,
then every such person and persons so as aforesaid offending shall
be deemed, declared and adjudged to be a traitor and traitors, and
shall suffer pains of death,... as in cases of high treason.

TREASON ACT 1795 - SECT 5
Persons accused of treason to be entitled to benefit of 1695 c.3.

5. PROVIDED always,... that all and every person or persons that
shall at any time be accused or indicted or prosecuted for any
offence made or declared to be treason by this Act shall be
entitled to the benefit of the Treason Act, 1695.

TREASON ACT 1795 - SECT 6
Act not to prevent prosecution at common law.

6. PROVIDED also,... that nothing in this Act contained shall extend
or be construed to extend to prevent or affect any prosecution by
information or indictment at the common law for any offence within
the provisions of this Act, unless the party shall have been first
prosecuted under this Act.