Levying War
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In criminal law. The assembling of a body of men for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable object; and all who perform any part, however minute, or however remote from the Scene of action, and who are leagued in the general conspiracy, are considered as togaged In levying war, within the meaning of the constitution.
4 Cranoh' (U. S.) m, 474; Const, art. 8, § 3. See "Treason"; Fed. Cas. Nm 14,692.
This Is a tefthnical term, borrowed from the English law, and its meaning is the same as it is when used in St. 25 Edw. III.
4 Cranch (U. S.l