Treason Act or Treasons Act (and variations thereon) is a stock short title used for legislation in the United Kingdom and in the Republic of Ireland on the subject of treason and related offences. These Acts may also be referred to as Statute of Treasons.
Several Acts on the subject of treason may also have different short titles, such as the Sedition Act.
The Treason Acts may refer to all statutes with this short title or to all statutes on the subject of treason and related offences.
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Famous quotes containing the words treason and/or act:
“The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.”
—Spanish proverb, pt. 1, bk. 4, ch. 7, quoted in Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605, trans by P. Motteux)
“However great a man’s fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear- headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance—so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival.”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)