TRAITOROUSLY

pleadings. This is a technical word, which is essential in an indictment for treason in order to charge the crime, and which cannot be supplied by any other word, or any kind of circumlocution. Having been well laid in the statement of the treason itself, it is not necessary to state every overt act to have been traitorously committed. … [Read more...] about TRAITOROUSLY

crimes. One guilty of treason. 2. The punishment of a traitor is death. … [Read more...] about TRAITOR

In old Scotch law. ; A roll containing the particular dittay taken up on malefactors, which, with the porteous, is delivered by the justice clerk to the coroner, to the effect that the persons whose names are contained in the porteous may be attached, conform to the dittay contained in the traistis. So called, 'because committed to the traist, [trust,] faith, and credit of the … [Read more...] about TRAISTIS

The militia; the part of a community trained to martial exercises. … [Read more...] about TRAINBANDS

Justices of trail-bas-ton were Justices appointed by King Edward I., during his absence in the Scotch and French wars, about the year 1305. They were so styled, says Hollingshed, for trailing or drawing the staff of justice. Their office was to make inquisition, throughout the kingdom, of all officers and others, touching extortion, bribery, and such like grievances, of … [Read more...] about TRAIL-BASTON