Commission of rebellion

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In old English law, a commission of rebellion, or writ of rebellion, was a process of contempt on the nonappearance of a defendant. It was issued out when a man, after proclamation issued out of the chancery, or the exchequer, and made by the sheriff, to present himself, under pain of his allegiance, to the court by a certain day, does not appear.

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• This article incorporates content from the 1728 Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.
• Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)