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Commission of rebellion
(gcide) | Rebellion \Re*bel"lion\ (r[-e]*b[e^]l"y[u^]n), n. [F.
r['e]bellion, L. rebellio. See Rebel, v. i. Among the
Romans rebellion was originally a revolt or open resistance
to their government by nations that had been subdued in war.
It was a renewed war.]
1. The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the
authority of the government to which one owes obedience,
and resistance to its officers and laws, either by levying
war, or by aiding others to do so; an organized uprising
of subjects for the purpose of coercing or overthrowing
their lawful ruler or government by force; revolt;
insurrection.
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No sooner is the standard of rebellion displayed
than men of desperate principles resort to it.
--Ames.
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2. Open resistance to, or defiance of, lawful authority.
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Commission of rebellion (Eng. Law), a process of contempt
issued on the nonappearance of a defendant, -- now
abolished. --Wharton. --Burrill.
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Syn: Insurrection; sedition; revolt; mutiny; resistance;
contumacy. See Insurrection.
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COMMISSION OF REBELLION
(bouvier) | COMMISSION OF REBELLION, chan. prac. The name of a writ issuing out of
chancery, generally directed to four special commissioners, named by the
plaintiff, commanding them to attach the defendant wheresoever he may be
found within the state, as a rebel and contemner of the law, so as to have
him in chancery on a certain day therein named. This writ may be issued
after an attachment with proclamation, and a return of non est inventus.
Blake's Ch. Pr. 102; Newl. Ch. Pr. 14.
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COMMISSION OF REBELLION
(bouvier) | COMMISSION OF REBELLION, chan. prac. The name of a writ issuing out of
chancery, generally directed to four special commissioners, named by the
plaintiff, commanding them to attach the defendant wheresoever he may be
found within the state, as a rebel and contemner of the law, so as to have
him in chancery on a certain day therein named. This writ may be issued
after an attachment with proclamation, and a return of non est inventus.
Blake's Ch. Pr. 102; Newl. Ch. Pr. 14.
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