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TREASON ACT 1814

TREASON ACT 1814 - LONG TITLE

An Act to alter the Punishment in certain Cases of High Treason.{1}
[27th July 1814]
WHEREAS in certain cases of high treason, as the law now stands,
the sentence or judgement required by law to be pronounced or
awarded against persons convicted or adjudged guilty of the said
crime in such cases is that they should be drawn on a hurdle to
the place of execution and there be hanged by the neck, but not
until they are dead, but that they should be taken down again, and
that when they are yet alive their bowels should be taken out and
burnt before their faces, and that afterwards their heads should be
severed from their bodies, and their bodies be divided into four
quarters, and their heads and quarters to be at the King's
disposal: And Whereas it is expedient in the said cases of high
treason to alter the sentence or judgement now required by law:[

TREASON ACT 1814 - SECT 1
Form of sentence in case of high treason.

1.] In all cases of high treason in which as the law now stands
the sentence or judgement ordained by law is as aforesaid, the
sentence or judgement to be pronounced or awarded from and after
the passing of this Act against any person convicted or adjudged
guilty shall be, that such person shall be ... hanged by the neck
until such person be dead; ....

S.2 rep. by SL(R) 1973