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Political crime

01 January 1991

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Political crime
libdoc November=1991

Author: Hall WGC
Publisher: Unwin Brothers 1923
Keywords: Law Treason OSA Sedition Emergency legislation
Official secrecy

Contents:

Preface
Table of Statutes
Table of cases
1. What is political crime
2. Treason
3. Treason, felony, misprision of treason, and sedition
4. Offences akin to treason
5. Offences under the Official Secrets Acts, 1911 and 1920
6. Emergency legislation and martial law
7. Leniency as a policy
8. Executive interference with the course of the law
9. Objects of punishment
10. Arguments for and against leniency
11. Practical utility of the death penalty
12. Conclusion
Index

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