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Edward therefore introduced the Treason Act 1351. It was enacted at a time in English history when a monarch's right to rule was indisputable and was therefore written principally to protect the throne and sovereign. [20] The new law offered a narrower definition of treason than had existed before and split the old feudal offence into two classes.
A History of Treason: The bloody history of Britain through the stories of its most notorious traitors. John Blake Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78946-628-7. Bellamy, J. G. (2004). The Law of Treason in England in the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-52638-8. Hostettler, John (2009).
Petty treason or petit treason was an offence under the common law of England in which a person killed or otherwise violated the authority of a social superior, other than the king. In England and Wales , petty treason ceased to be a distinct offence from murder by virtue of the Offences against the Person Act 1828 . [ 1 ]
William Bruce Mumford, convicted of treason and hanged in 1862 for tearing down a United States flag during the American Civil War. Walter Allen was convicted of treason on September 16, 1922 for taking part in the 1921 Miner's March against the coal companies and the U.S. Army at Blair Mountain, West Virginia. He was sentenced to 10 years and ...
In the Middle Ages, blinding was used as a penalty for treason or as a means of rendering a political opponent unable to rule and lead an army in war. [7] The blinding of Byzantine general Belisarius (c. 500 – 565) at the order of the Emperor Justinian is probably apocryphal.
The Poisoning Act 1530 (22 Hen. 8.c. 9) was an Act of the Parliament of England. [1] Its long title was "An Act for Poisoning." It made it high treason to murder someone with poison, and instead of the usual punishment for treason (hanging, drawing and quartering) it imposed death by boiling.
It was not treason to repair a statue of the emperor which had decayed from age, to hit such a statue with a stone thrown by chance, to melt down such a statue if unconsecrated, to use mere verbal insults against the emperor, to fail in keeping an oath sworn by the emperor or to decide a case contrary to an imperial constitution. [1]
A 1638 case is less clear: it involved a legal dispute between Ralf Claxton and Richard Lilburne (the latter the father of John Lilburne). The king again stepped in, and judges acted to delay proceedings. [19] [18] No record survives of the outcome of the case, but no contemporary account speaks of the trial by battle actually taking place.