Treason


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Note: "Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance. This typically includes acts such as participating in a war against one´s native 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. A person who commits treason is known in law as a traitor.

Historically, in common law countries, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife or that of a master by his servant. Treason (i.e. disloyalty) against one´s monarch was known as high treason and treason against a lesser superior was petty treason. As jurisdictions around the world abolished petty treason, "treason" came to refer to what was historically known as high treason." - (en.wikipedia.org 26.05.2022)

[Last update: 2022/05/26]