petit treason

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Noun

petit treason (uncountable)

  1. (law, archaic) The crime committed by a servant in killing his master, by a wife in killing her husband, or by an ecclesiastic in killing his superior; and, earlier, certain lesser crimes of subordinate against such superiors.

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