Usually means: Betrayal or murder of superior.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (petit treason)

noun:  (law, archaic) The crime of a subordinate killing a superior (other than the sovereign, which would constitute high treason): a servant killing his master, a wife killing her husband, etc.; and, earlier, certain lesser crimes of subordinates against superiors.

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