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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...

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...

Contrarients

Contrarients, used temp. Edw. 2, to signify those who were opposed to the king, though it was not thought fit, in respect of their great power, to call them rebels or traitors, Jac. Law Dict....

Hurdle

Hurdle, a sledge used to draw traitors to execution, disused by operation of the Forfeiture Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 23), s. 31....

Rebellion

Rebellion. 1. The taking up of arms traitorously against the Crown, whether by natural subjects or others when once subdued. 2. Disobedience to the process of the courts. See next title.Open, organised, and armed resistance to an established government or ruler, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1273....

Sledge

Sledge, a hurdle to draw traitors to execution, 1 Hale, P.C. 82....

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