• The '''''' (
20 Geo. 2. c. 41) stated that any traitor who had been convicted since 24 June 1745, or who had been
attainted by statute before 24 June 1748, was to automatically forfeit all of their property to the Crown, without the need for any further legal procedure whatsoever. • A third act, the '''''' (
20 Geo. 2. c. 46), made it a
felony, punishable with death without
benefit of clergy, for anyone who had been
pardoned for treason and
transported to America to return to Great Britain or Ireland, or to go to the dominions of the French or Spanish kings. It was also felony for anyone else to aid and abet a pardoned traitor to commit the same offence, or to correspond with one. However an
indictment had to be brought within two years. ==See also==