| 单词 | treason |
| 释义 | treason treason a breach of the allegiance owed to the Crown. It cannot be committed unless the person concerned is a child of a British father or is under the protection of the Crown as by having a British pass- port. Naturalisation as a citizen of another state is not sufficient to elide liability. The location of the traitor is not relevant as where Lord Haw Haw broadcast demoralising propaganda from Germany to the UK: R v. Casement [1917] 1 KB 98. A wider offence of treachery under the Treachery Act 1940 applied for the Second World War and a good time thereafter. By the Treason Act 1708 the English law was applied to Scotland. |
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