Rebel

A citizen or subject who unjustly and unlawfully takes up arms against the constituted authorities of the nation, to deprive them of the supreme power, either by resisting their lawful and constitutional orders in some particular matter, or to impose on them conditions. Vattel, liv. 3, f 328.

In another sense, it signifies a refusal to obey a superior, or the commands of a court.

A citizen or subject who unjustly and unlawfuly takes up arms against the constituted authorities of the nation, to deprive them of the supreme pow T er, either by resisting their lawful and constitutional orders in some particular matter or to impose on them conditions. Vattel, Droit des Qcm, liv. 3, § 328.

In another sense, it signifies a refusal to obey a superior or the commands of a court.

1. In modern public and criminal law, one who engages in war, or rises in armed resistance against his government; one who forcibly resists the execution of the laws, or of lawful process. Rebellion: deliberate, organized resistance, by force and arms, to the laws or operations of the government, committed by a subject. 2. In old English law, rebellion also signified disobedience to a writ of attachment, issued under the practice of the court of chancery; and if a defendant was summoned, upon his allegiance, personally to appear and answer, and he neglected to do so, a " commission of rebellion" was awarded against him, for not obeying the king's proclamation, according to his allegiance. 3 Bl. Com. 444. Disobedience to "letters of horning," in Scotland, is called by the same name. Bell.