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Home Dictionary Name: traitorTraitor's Gate
Traitor's Gate, the river gate of the Tower of London by which traitors, and state prisoners generally, were committed to the Tower, Oxf. Dict...
Quartering traitors
Quartering traitors. The judgment for high treason, as prescribed by 54 Geo. 3, c. 146, s. 1, was that the head of the person after death by hanging should be severed from his body, and the body, divided into four quarters, should be disposed of as the sovereign should think fit; but this portion of the Act is repealed by the (English) Forfeiture Act, 1870, s. 31....
Traitor
Traitor [fr. traditor, Lat.], one who, being trusted, betrays; one guilty of treason. See TREASON....
Treason
Treason [fr. trahir, Fr., to betray; proditio, Lat.], or leze-majesty, an offence against the duty of allegiance, and the highest known crime, for it aims at the very destruction of the commonwealth itself. Five species of treason are declared by the Treason Act, 1351, or 'Statute of Treasons' (25 Edw. 3, st. 5, c. 2), as follows:-(1) When a man doth compass or imagine the death of our lord the king (a queen regnant is within these words), of our lady his queen or of their eldest son and heir.(2) If a man do violate the king's companion (i.e., his wife), or the king's eldest daughter unmarried, or the wife of the king's eldest son and heir.(3) If a man do levy war against our lord the king in his realm. (After a battle has taken place, it is termed bellum percussum; before it, bellum levatum.)(4) If a man be adherent to the king's enemies in his realm, giving to them aid or comfort in the realm or elsewhere.(5) If a man slay the chancellor, treasurer, or the king's justices assigned to...
Eject
To expel to dismiss to cast forth to thrust or drive out to discharge as to eject a person from a room to eject a traitor from the country to eject words from the language...
Felonious
Having the quality of felony malignant malicious villainous traitorous perfidious in a legal sense done with intent to commit a crime as felonious homicide...
Proditor
A traitor...
Punish
To impose a penalty upon to afflict with pain loss or suffering for a crime or fault either with or without a view to the offenders amendment to cause to suffer in retribution to chasten as to punish traitors with death a father punishes his child for willful disobedience...
Sergeant
Formerly in England an officer nearly answering to the more modern bailiff of the hundred also an officer whose duty was to attend on the king and on the lord high steward in court to arrest traitors and other offenders He is now called sergeant at arms and two of these officers by allowance of the sovereign attend on the houses of Parliament one for each house to execute their commands and another attends the Court Chancery...
Abjuration
Abjuration, means a renouncing by oath, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 5.Abjuration [fr. abjuro, Lat.], a forswearing or renouncing by oath. To abjure is to retract, recant or abnegate a position on oath. 'Abjuration of the realm,' in the old law, signified an oath taken by a person accused of crime who had claimed sanctuary (see that tile) to forsake the realm for ever. It was abolished by 12 Jac. 1, c. 28.The oath of abjuration (introduced by 13 Wm. 3, c. 16, and altered by 6 Geo. 3, c. 53) had to be taken by every person entering upon any public office or trust. By this he renounced the Pretender (the son of James II.) and recognized the right of Her Majesty, under the Act of Settlement (q.v.), engaging to support her, and promising to disclose all treasons and traitorous conspiracies against her, Staunforde Pl. C. b. 2, c. 40. By 21 & 22 Vict. C. 48, one form of oath was substituted for the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration. For this form another was substituted by...
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