1814年血统败坏法令

《1814年血统败坏法令》(英语:Corruption of Blood Act 1814;54 Geo. 3 c. 145)是大不列颠及爱尔兰联合王国国会的一项法令,废除了除叛逆、轻微叛逆及谋杀以外所有罪行的血统败坏。在此之前,血统败坏一直是因叛逆及重刑罪而被剥夺财产及公民权利者的自动后果。(该法令不适用于在法令生效日期之前犯下的罪行。)该法令是法律改革者国会议员塞缪尔·罗米利英语Samuel Romilly爵士努力的成果。他曾于1813年提出类似的法案,但未获通过。

1814年血统败坏法令
Corruption of Blood Act 1814[1]
国会法令
英国国会
全名本法令旨在取消某些情况下的血统败坏。(An Act to take away Corruption of Blood save in certain Cases.)
引称54 Geo.3 c.145
提案者塞缪尔·罗米利英语Samuel Romilly爵士
适用地域英格兰及威尔士北爱尔兰
日期
御准1814年7月27日
其他法例
废除法例1960年成文法编正法令英语Statute Law Revision Act 1960
现状:已废止

1828年侵害人身罪法令英语Offences against the Person Act 1828》废除了轻微叛逆罪。《1870年没收法令英语Forfeiture Act 1870》废除了重刑罪及叛逆罪,谋杀及叛逆的血统败坏由此获取消。

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该法令由单一条款组成,内容如下:

"[N]o attainder for felony which shall take place from and after the passing of this Act, save and except in cases of the crime of high treason, or of the crimes of petit treason or murder, or of abetting, procuring, or counselling the same, shall extend to the dis-inheriting of any heir, nor to the prejudice of the right or title of any person or persons other than the right or title of the offender or offenders during his, her, or their natural lives only; and that it shall be lawful to every person or persons, to whom the right or interest of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments after the death of any such offender or offenders should or might have appertained if no such attainder had been, to enter into the same."

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  1. ^ This short title was conferred by the Short Titles Act 1896.