- For other uses, see High Treason (disambiguation).
High treason is criminal disloyalty to one's country. In Law, treason is the Crime that covers some of the more serious acts of disloyalty to one's sovereign or Nation. Under British law high treason is the crime of disloyalty to the Sovereign amounting to an intention to undermine their authority or the actual attempt to do so Participating in a war against one's country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplomats, or its secret services for a hostile and foreign power, or attempting to kill its head of state are perhaps the best-known examples of high treason. High treason requires that the alleged traitor have obligations of loyalty in the state they betrayed, such as citizenship, although presence in the state at the time is sufficient. Foreign spies, assassins, and saboteurs, though not suffering the dishonor associated with conviction for high treason, may still be tried and punished judicially for acts of espionage, assassination, or sabotage, though in contemporary times, foreign spies and saboteurs are usually repatriated following capture.
Historically, in common law countries high treason was differentiated from petty treason, which was the act of killing a lawful superior (such as a servant killing his or her master or mistress). Common law refers to law and the corresponding legal system developed through decisions of courts and similar tribunals rather than through legislative statutes or executive Petty treason or petit treason was in English common law, any betrayal of a superior by a subordinate It was, in effect, considered a more serious degree of murder. Murder is the unlawful killing of another human person with Malice aforethought, as defined in Common Law countries As jurisdictions around the world abolished petty treason, the concept of petty treason gradually faded, and today use of the word "treason" generally refers to "high treason. In Law, treason is the Crime that covers some of the more serious acts of disloyalty to one's sovereign or Nation. "
Note that while Canadian law describes two separate offences of treason and high treason, both of these in fact fall in the historical category of high treason. In Law, treason is the Crime that covers some of the more serious acts of disloyalty to one's sovereign or Nation. [1]
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- ^ Criminal Code of Canada, section 46. In Law, treason is the Crime that covers some of the more serious acts of disloyalty to one's sovereign or Nation. This is a list of people convicted of treason. Some countries such as the U
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