commission of rebellion

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commission of rebellion - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  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.