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The new law offered a narrower definition of treason than had existed before and split the old feudal offence into two classes. [21] [22] Petty treason referred to the killing of a master (or lord) by his servant, a husband by his wife, or a prelate by his clergyman. Men guilty of petty treason were drawn and hanged, whereas women were burned ...
In medieval times, most treason cases were in the context of a kingdom's internal politics. Though helping a foreign monarch against one's own sovereign would also count as treason, such were only a minority among treason cases.
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 ]
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 come-hither shoe that turned the head of many a medieval romantic [London Museum] Perhaps one of the oddest moral panics - a fear that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society - was one ...
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 ...
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.
From 1990 to 2005, the Thai court system only saw four or five lèse-majesté cases a year. From January 2006 to May 2011, however, more than 400 cases came to trial. [89] Observers attribute the increase to increased polarization following the 2006 military coup and sensitivity over the elderly king's declining health. [89]