Petit Treason
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Petit treason, treason of a lesser kind, as if a servant killed his master, a wife her husband, a secular or religious man his prelate. But by 9 Geo. 4, c. 31, s. 2, every offence which, before the passing of the Act, would have amounted to petit treason, is deemed murder only.
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