REBE

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  REBEL. A citizen or subject who unjustly and unlawfully takes up arms 
  against the constituted authorities of the nation, to deprive them of the 
  supreme power, either by resisting their lawful and constitutional orders, 
  in some particular matter, or to impose on them conditions. Vattel, Droit 
  des Gens, liv. 3, Sec. 328. In another sense it signifies a refusal to obey 
  a superior, or the commands of a court. Vide Commission of Rebellion.