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REBELLION , the See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act or continuance in act of a See also:

REBEL, JOHANN PETER (176o-1826)

rebel or rebels (See also:

LAT

Lat. rebellio, rebellis, a See also:

compound of ye-, against, and bellum, See also:

war). A rebel is one who engages in armed resistance to the See also:

government to which he owes See also:

ALLEGIANCE (Mid. Eng. ligeaunce; med. Lat. ligeantia, &c.; the al- was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an allegation; the Fr. allegeance comes from the English; the word is formed from " liege," of which the derivatio

allegiance. For the distinction between See also:

CIVIL

Civil War and Rebellion, see WAR, See also:

LAWS

LAWS OF. Where individuals as distinguished from See also:

groups of men are concerned the See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of rebel is easier to determine. That the alleged act of war was done by See also:

order of another cannot be in principle an excuse for a subject or See also:

CITIZEN (a form corrupted in Eng., apparently by analogy with " denizen," from O. Fr. citeain, mod. Fr. citoyen)

citizen of any See also:

state taking arms against it. Under the rules of war adopted at the See also:

HAGUE, THE (in Dutch, 's Gravenhage, or, abbreviated, den Haag; in Fr. La Haye; and in Late Lat. Haga Comitis)

Hague in 1907, moreover, any excuse for doing so is removed by the See also:

PROVISION (Lat. provisio)

provision that a belligerent is forbidden to compel nationals of the hostile party to take See also:

PART

part in operations of war against their own See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, " even if they were in the belligerent's service before the commencement of the war " (See also:

ART

art. 123). In the See also:

case of R. v. Louw, known as the " Calvinia Flogging case " (Supreme See also:

Court of the Cape See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

Colony, Feb. 18, 1904), the question of the validity of the excuse of acting under orders contrary to allegiance was discussed in an uncertain spirit, and in a previous case, the See also:

MORITZ, KARL PHILIPP (1757-1793)

Moritz case, tried before the See also:

TREASON (Fr. trahison, Lat. traditio)

Treason Court at See also:

MAFEKING

Mafeking (Nov. 7, 1901), the court held that insurgent nationals " who had joined the burghers must be placed on the same footing as burghers fighting against us." There may be See also:

SPECIAL

special circumstances operating to qualify the application of a principle, but the above stated principle, as such, must be regarded as the only legal basis of See also:

ARGUMENT

argument on the subject. (T.

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