{{Short description|Act of the Parliament of England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use British English|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox UK legislation | short_title = Forfeitures Act 1361 | type = Act | parliament = Parliament of England | long_title = There shall be no forfeiture of lands for treason of dead persons not attainted. | year = 1361 | citation = 34 Edw. 3. c. 12 | territorial_extent = {{ubli|England and Wales|Ireland}} | royal_assent = | commencement = | repeal_date = 30 July 1948 | amendments = | repealing_legislation = Statute Law Revision Act 1948 | related_legislation = | status = Repealed | original_text = https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000017915496&seq=561 }}
The '''Forfeitures Act 1361''' (34 Edw. 3. c. 12) was an act of the Parliament of England that prohibited "forfeiture for treason of <nowiki>[by]</nowiki> dead persons not attainted or judged in their lives."
Prior to the act being passed, land and goods had been confiscated from the surviving relatives of dead people as a penalty for treason committed by the deceased even though they had not been convicted during their lifetime. The act prevented the posthumous seizure of property for treason except where the prior owner had been convicted while they were alive.
== Legacy == The act was extended to Ireland by Poynings' Law 1495 (10 Hen. 7. c. 22 (I)).
The whole act was repealed for England and Wales by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law Revision Act 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 125) and for Ireland by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Statute Law (Ireland) Revision Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 98).
== Notes == {{Notelist}}
== References == *''Statutes at Large,'' vol. II, Danby Pickering, Cambridge University Press (1762), pp. 141–142.
== See also == * High treason in the United Kingdom * Treason Act
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Category:Acts of the Parliament of England 1361 Category:Repealed English legislation Category:Treason in England Category:Treason Acts
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