REBELLION

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REBELLION , the act or continuance in act of a

rebel

REBEL, JOHANN
PETER
(176o-1826)

or rebels (Lat. rebellio, rebellis, a compound of ye-, against, and bellum, war). A

rebel

REBEL, JOHANN
PETER
(176o-1826)

is one who engages in armed resistance to the government to which he owes allegiance. For the distinction between Civil War and Rebellion, see WAR,

LAWS

LAWS

OF. Where individuals as distinguished from groups of men are concerned the

character

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

of rebel is easier to determine. That the alleged act of war was done by order of another cannot be in principle an excuse for a subject or citizen of any state taking arms against it. Under the rules of war adopted at the Hague in 1907, moreover, any excuse for doing so is removed by the provision that a belligerent is forbidden to compel nationals of the hostile party to take

part

PART

in operations of war against their own country, " even if they were in the belligerent's service before the commencement of the war " (art. 123). In the

case

CASE
CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

of R. v. Louw, known as the " Calvinia Flogging

case

CASE
CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

" (Supreme

Court

COURT
COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the
influence
- INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)
of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

of the Cape 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 Moritz case, tried before the Treason

Court

COURT
COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the
influence
- INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)
of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

at 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

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

argument

ARGUMENT

on the subject. (T. BA.)

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