Legal Definition and Related Resources of Mutiny
Meaning of Mutiny
An insurrection of soldiers or seamen against the authority of their commanders.
Mutiny Alternative Definition
In criminal law. The unlawful resistance to a superior oflicer, or the raising of commotions and disturbances on board of a ship against the authority of its commander, or in the army in opposition to the authority of the officers; a sedition; a revolt.
Synonyms of Mutiny
noun
- defiance
- disloyalty
- disobedience
- insubordination
- insurgence
- insurgency
- insurrection
- motus
- opposition
- oppugnancy
- outbreak
- rebellion
- refusal to comply
- resistance
- revolt
- revolution
- seditio
- sedition
- subversion
- treason
- upheaval
- uprising
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Mutiny in Law Enforcement
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- mutiny in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
- mutiny in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
- A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis
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