Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

commission of rebellion

-list. 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."Commission of rebellion (Commissio rebellionis) is otherwise called a writte of rebellion, (breue rebellionis) and it hath use, when a man after proclamation made by the Shyreeve upon an order of the channcerie, or court of Starre chamber, under penaltie of his allegance, to present himselfe to the court by a certaine day, appeareth not. And this commission is directed by way of command to certain persons, to this end, that they ... apprehend, or cause to be apprehended, the party as a rebell and contemner of the kings lawes." John Cowell, The Interpreter (1607).