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Insurrection

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

A rebellion or rising of citizens or subjects in resistance to their government. See Insurgent. Insurrection shall consist in any combined resistance to the lawful authority of the state, with intent to the denial thereof, when the same is manifested, or intended to be manifested, by acts of violence.

Code Ga. 1882, § 4315. And see Allegheny County v. Gibson, 90 Pa. 417, 35 Am. Rep. 670; Boon v. Ætna Ins. Co., 40 Conn. 584; In re Charge to Grand Jury (D. C.) 62 Fed. 830.