Rebellion
Re`bel´lion Pronunciation: rė`bĕl´yŭn
REBELLION, crim. law. The taking up arms traitorously against the government
and in another, and perhaps a more correct sense, rebellion signifies the
forcible opposition and resistance to the laws and process lawfully issued.
2. If the rebellion amount to treason, it is punished by the laws of
the United States with death. If it be a mere resistance of process, it is
generally punished by fine and imprisonment. See Dalloz, Dict. h.t.; Code
Penal, 209.
REBELLION, COMMISSION OF. A commission of rebellion is the name of a writ
issuing out of chancery to compel the defendant to appear. Vide Commission
of Rebellion.
anarchism,
anarcho-syndicalism,
anarchy,
antinomianism,
chaos,
civil disorder,
confusion,
contumacy,
criminal syndicalism,
defiance,
disobedience,
disorder,
disorderliness,
disorganization,
disruption,
emeute,
general uprising,
insubordination,
insurgence,
insurgency,
jacquerie,
levee en masse,
lynch law,
misrule,
mob law,
mob rule,
mobocracy,
mutiny,
nihilism,
ochlocracy,
outbreak,
peasant revolt,
primal chaos,
putsch,
rebelliousness,
resistance,
revolution,
riot,
rising,
syndicalism,
tohubohu,
turmoil,
unruliness