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...

servant. Treason (i.e. disloyalty) against one's monarch was known as high treason and treason against a lesser superior was petty treason. As jurisdictions...

high treason, including counterfeiting money and being a Catholic priest. High treason was generally distinguished from petty treason, a treason committed...

offered a narrower definition of treason than had existed before and split the old feudal offence into two classes. Petty treason referred to the killing of...

for petty treason. The offence had previously been called petty treason, before the Act elevated it to high treason. Under the Act petty treason was the...

was a legal punishment inflicted on women found guilty of high treason, petty treason, and heresy. Over a period of several centuries, female convicts...

penalty for women convicted of high treason, petty treason and abetting, procuring or counselling petty treason, and replaced it with drawing and hanging...

Hayes, was an English woman who was burned at the stake for committing petty treason by killing her husband. Catherine Hall was born near Birmingham in 1690...

was formerly known as misprision of high treason in order to distinguish it from misprision of petty treason, before that offence was abolished along...

except high treason, petty treason and murder. Corruption of blood had until then been an automatic consequence of attainder for treason and felony. (The...

for murdering their husbands were judged for petty treason, and the execution method for petty treason was burning at the stake. Since Mary Lakeland...

harm or sue one's husband or elder relatives. Unrighteousness (不義): petty treason; to murder one's superiors, mentor, or local government officials. Incest...

"petit treason, murder or felony". By the end of the 16th century, the list of unclergyable offences included murder, rape, poisoning, petty treason, sacrilege...

[citation needed] There were two types of treason: high treason, for crimes against the sovereign; and petty treason, for the murder of one's lawful superior...

be petty treason. The Treason Act 1351 provided that this was not petty treason. In English admiralty law, piracy was classified as petty treason during...

superior, which included a wife killing her husband, was classified as petty treason (which for women incurred burning at stake) and was a crime more severe...

uxoricide. Under English common law it was a petty treason until 1828, and until it was altered under the Treason Act 1790 the punishment was to be strangled...

used witchcraft to murder her husband: this latter crime constituted petty treason, for which the punishment was burning. Similar logic justified the execution...

Fenster and Daniel Lord Smail: 146–48. Jones, Karen (2006). Gender and petty crime in late medieval England : the local courts in Kent, 1460–1560. Woodbridge:...

indictment for murder and manslaughter, with excusable homicide and with petty treason. Section 6 replaced section 4 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1851 (14...

public health Offences against public revenue, including smuggling Petty treason and murder Stabbing, maiming and shooting at any person Rape, forcible...

offences such as high treason, mass murder, patricide/matricide, or the murder of one's master or employer (English: petty treason). Emperors used it to...

clipping coins (which was high treason until 1832). The penalty for this kind of high treason was the same as for petty treason, which for men was to be drawn...

the stake was eliminated except in cases of witchcraft that were also petty treason; most convicted were hanged instead. Any witch who had committed a minor...

of treason (disputed – alleged to be statutory) Murder N Nightwalking (so as to cause alarm) O Obscene libel Outraging public decency P Petty treason Piracy...

judged guilty as charged. Since the murder of a husband was defined as petty treason, the punishment was death by burning. She confessed to have "been a...

JSTOR 2869370. Dolan, Frances E. (1992). "The Subordinate('s) Plot: Petty Treason and the Forms of Domestic Rebellion". Shakespeare Quarterly. 43 (3)...

convince the court. Alice Arden was found guilty of the crime of murder (Petty treason) and burnt at the stake in Canterbury. Her co-conspirators were all...

the usual course of law, Roose could at most have been convicted of petty treason. The King's reaction, says Bernard, was an extraordinary one, and he...

repealed, and the Buggery Act 1533. It also abolished the crime of petty treason. The Act only applied to England and Wales (then described as England)...