commission of rebellion

Hist. An attaching process that empowered a layperson to arrest and bring a defendant to Chancery to enforce obedience to a writ of subpoena or decree.

• The commission of rebellion was abolished in 1841.

— Also termed writ of rebellion; commissio rebellionis; breve rebellionis.

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